
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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[post updated 10/13/26]

cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
The Editors, “Meeting the Story-Maker – Donald G. Cormack”
Ray King, “Brides for Murdered Men”
Dane Gregory, “Golden Lady of Death” (Rocky Rhodes)
Russell Gray, “Girls for the Coffin Syndicate” (Ben Bryn)
W. Wayne Robbins, “Mad Is the Flesh-Master!“
Donald G. Cormack, “Satan’s Surgeon”, given as “Corpse Surgeon” on the cover (Tom Cardigan)
(cover art repurposed from January 1935 issue)

1958 Horwitz paperback original

1959 US release as a Signet paperback original
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
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1961 Horwitz International Edition

cover art by Ron Lesser
1966 Signet reissue



1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes

1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

cover art by Harry Bennett

later Consul issue from the UK
pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein
30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad

1948 Simon and Schuster hardcover

cover art by Gerald Gregg/ map by Ruth Belew


1951 Boardman hardcover from the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1955 Boardman UK softcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin



1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover

1948 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg, map by Ruth Belew
better image than previously posted

1950 Boardman hardcover from the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin


better image than previously posted


1951 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Rudolph Belarski

1961 Simon and Schuster hardcover, first edition

1961 Black Cat mass market from Grove Press

1966 Hodder paperback from the UK

1966 Pyramid reissue movie tie-in

filmed by Stanley Donen as Arabesque, 1966, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren
