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Black Alibi x 8

July/August 1939 issue

included Cornell Woolrich’s “Street of Jungle Death”, the basis for his classic novel Black Alibi

1942 Simon & Schuster hardcover, an Inner Sanctum mystery

his 3rd novel as by Woolrich

better image than previously posted

1943 Handi-Book digest

1943 RKO adaptation

1946 American Mercury/Jonathan Press digest – cover art by George Salter

(previous owner’s intrusive signature on cover)

1956 Mercury digest – cover art by George Salter

1965 Collier Mystery reissue – cover accredited to Dick Cuffari

1982 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Laurence Schwinger

1970 Paramount Pictures, Borsolino

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1970. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the American release of the 1970 French film, showing actor Alain Delon.

Based on Eugene Saccomano’s 1959 book “Bandits a Marseille.” Two small time gangsters in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business, vying with mob bosses for control. Director Jacques Deray released a sequel, “Borsalino and Co,” in 1974, starring Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla.