
1942 Avon digest, Murder Mystery Monthly No.7, first softcover release of this American classic, first softcover release of this American classic

1942 Avon digest, Murder Mystery Monthly No.7, first softcover release of this American classic, first softcover release of this American classic

1943 Doubleday hardcover
1944 Avon digest, first softcover edition
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Gangsters and Gun Molls #3, Avon, 1952
Art taken from Avon Paperback #143, entitled “Flash Casey” by George Harmon Coxe. Art credit from Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1948.


1946 Chartered digest paperback original
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1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine
“Black” (May 1932)
“Red 71” (December 1932)
“Parlor Trick” (July 1932)
“One, Two, Three” (May 1933)
“Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine
“Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)
“Pineapple” (March 1936)


1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin

1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue
cover art by Joe Servello


February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
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1940 Simon and Schuster hardcover as The Bride Wore Black, first novel and the beginning of his “Black” title run
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August 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
