Category: crime fiction

1961 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Robert Abbett

1961 Gold Medal paperback original

Charles Willeford writing under this pseudonym

author’s only crime novel under this name

cover art by Robert Abbett

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The Neon Jungle x 4 + 1

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

1958 Gold Medal reissue – cover art attributed to James Meese

1960 Gold Medal reissue

1960 Digit UK paperback – not the MacDonald but same art

`1981 Fawcett Gold Medal reissue

Whittington and more

1950 Handi-Book digest original

cover art by George Gross

undated Australian edition

1960 Berkley Diamond reissue

cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

1963 Beacon paperback original with updated artwork

Clean Break into The Killing

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition. In publisher’s trial dust jacket, date stamped March 1, 1955, on the bottom of the front flap.

Basis for Stanley Kubrick’s breakthrough 1956 film “The Killing,” starring Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles.

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1988 Black Lizard reissue – cover art by Kirwin

1956 United Artists – written and directed by Stanley Kubrick

February 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Robert Martin, “Death Under Glass” (Lee Fisk)

Hank Searls, “For Tomorrow We Die”

Talmage Powell, “Nobody’s Darling”

Frederick C. Davis, “Furlough for Murder” (reprint from 1943)

Larry Holden, “Prelude for Wake”

Don James, “G-String Kill”

John Bender, “In Jail By Christmas” (published in 1941 as “Prelude to an Operation”)

Ray Darby, “According to Plan”

1959 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare

cover art by Harry Schaare

pseudonym of Keith Carlton Robertson

first published as The Diamond-Studded Typewriter in 1958 by Macmillan

republished the following year by Dell in softcover with a new title

better image than previously posted

[updated with cover art 8/8/25]