1945 Avon Murder Mystery Monthly digest
cover art by Paul Stahr
Avon Book Company, [1946]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second paperback edition. Avon #88. Published earlier by Avon in 1945 as part of their “Murder Mystery Monthly” series. Collects five stories; “I’ll Be Waiting,” “The King in Yellow,” “Pearls Are a Nuisance,” ” Red Wind,” and “Trouble is My Business.” Light crease to front cover, light stress creases to spine, a near fine copy.
1950 Avon Monthly Novel digest original – first appearance
cover art by Mike Doyle
1951 Avon paperback – first mass market
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
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cover art by John Vernon
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1942 Putnam hardcover
cover art by Griffith Foxley
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published by Funk in 1941 as Profile in Gilt
republished the next year as Murder Will Out by Detective Novel Classic
SMB Noir 
