
1959 Fawcett paperback original
3rd with Southern Californian private eye Joe Puma
cover art by Robert Abbett
cover art kept for later edition

1959 Fawcett paperback original
3rd with Southern Californian private eye Joe Puma
cover art by Robert Abbett
cover art kept for later edition

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film noir, showing actors William Holden and Barry Fitzgerald.
A woman suspects several fellow train passengers of being the culprits in a highly publicized kidnapping case.
8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear to the corners.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First Edition.
Basis for the 1966 film noir, starring Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban and Rita Hayworth.

cover art by Harry Barton
better image than previously posted


1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover


1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas


1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper



Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH


Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Four vintage publicity photographs from the 1942 film, all four showing actors Diana Barrymore and Brian Donlevy. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso.

A down and out American gambler stranded in London during the German air raids finds himself assisting a woman whose husband has just been murdered, unaware that he will find himself embroiled in a family plot that involves Scotland Yard, Nazi spies, and international subterfuge.

From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.

10 x 8 inches.
first published in Britain by Nicholson

1946 Farrar & Rinehart hardcover, first thus in the US

1947 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg, map by Ruth Belew
better image than previously posted


1948 Universal Pictures, directed by Norman Foster

1948 Dell mapback with movie tie-in cover
