cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Merle Constiner, “The Puzzle of the Terrified Dummy” (The Dean)
T.T. Flynn, “Post-Mortem at Pimlico” (Mr. Maddox)
Hugh B. Cave, “Ding Dong Belle” (Peter Kane)
Jan Dana, “Death in the Center” (Acme Insurance Op)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Fraulein Judas”
oil on board, 16 x 12-1/2 inches (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Zuckerberg
1953 Pocket reissue
1961 Dell reissue
[post updated 12/11/25]
1955 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Frederic Varady
13th in the Shell Scott series
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cover art by Barye Phillips
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George Ziel (American, 1914-1982)
A Kiss Before Dying, 1954 Signet reissue
oil on board, 25-1/4 x 20 inches (64.1 x 50.8 cm), not signed
Edgar award for Best Novel, 1954
cover art by Albert Drake
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Thorne Lee, “The Hill to Die”
Hank Napheys, “The Bloodbank Killings” (reprint from 1943)
John Bender, “Room for Murder”
Alvin Yudkoff, “Stand-in for Death”
Robert Turner, “Slay Belles”
1931 Collins hardcover in the UK, out the same year from Doubleday in the US.
this is the later abridged softcover edition
SMB Noir 
