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1950, Readers Choice Library #12 ~ cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff

cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff

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1941 Knopf hardcover, 1945 Avon reissue

cover art by Paul Stahr

published by Hale in the UK as Murder for Hannah

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cover art by William Frost (William Forrest)

“The second appearance of the character Hanna Van Doren, considered the first female hard-boiled detective in American literature.”

Off Beat Detective Stories, 1961

originally published as And Not for Love by Duell in 1942.

this is an abridged and re-titled edition from 1945

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Lawrence Lariar also wrote under the names Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence and Michael Stark

first published in 1943 by Phoenix as Death Paints the Picture, reprinted by Crime Novel Selection as Death is the Host that same year

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last of just four issues

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cover art by Dick Shelton

cover art by Malcolm W. Graveline