Category: crime fiction

Cropper’s Cabin x 4

1952 Lion paperback original

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1958 Pyramid reissue

cover art by Clark Hulings

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1987 Black Lizard reissue

cover art by Jim Kirwan

1992 Black Lizard reissue

cover photo by Diana Klein

1954 Dell paperback original –

1954 Dell paperback original

cover art by Stanley Borack

About a guy named Brad Dolan, whose scars run deep. He thought he’d worn out his conscience as Guadalcanal, Bastogne, the Inchon Reservoir — and in a New York apartment, where a restless model forgot she was his wife. Now he’s drifting deep in back-country Florida, the part you never see on the travel posters. Down here everything belongs to a man named Ringo — the jukes, the sheriff, the hustlers. Now Ringo wants to own Dolan

Dolan comes high.

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July 1948 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake

July 1948 issue

cover art by Albert Drake

Frederick C. Davis, “For Thee I Swing”

Robert Martin, “Dolls of Death”(featuring Jim Bennett)

Bryce Walton, “Whistle Stop Mayhem”

Hope Campbell, “A Shiv for Chivalry”

Dwight V. Swain, “Our Favorite Corpse”

John Polito, “Vacation from Violence”

Joseph W. Quinn, “Jackpot Jitters”

February 1938 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

February 1938 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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T.T. Flynn, “Dead Man’s Debt” (Mr Maddox)

Fred MacIsaac, “The Duchess of Diamonds” (Rambler Murphy)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chief” (Needle Mike)

Herbert Koehl, “Thirty Grand”

John Lawrence, “Boomerang Blastout” (Marquis of Broadway)

October 1938 issue ~ cover art by J. George Janes

October 1938 issue

cover art by J. George Janes

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~ Russell Bender, “Body-Guard to Death”, ‘Jake Connolly’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Frederick C. Davis, “This Way to the Morgue”, 1st of 2 with reporter Murray Gifford, 5th of 16 stories in BM

~ Frank Gruber, “Forced Landing”, 6th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, ‘Quade in Hollywood; see p.5 for letter from FG on Oliver Q.’, 9th of 14 stories in BM

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “The Death Pool”, 7th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida

~ Roger Torrey, “Gardenia Kill”, ‘9th (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 36th of 50 appearances in BM

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