Category: finest kind

So Young, So Wicked x 2

pseudonym of Frank E. Smith

1957 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by William Rose

non-series noir thriller

a syndicate killer has a contract to take out this 15-year-old who has played the risky game of blackmailing mobsters.

undated Gold Medal reissue

cover art by Barye Phillips

better image than previously posted

Homicide for Hannah x 4

1941 Knopf hardcover, 1945 Avon reissue

cover art by Paul Stahr

published by Hale in the UK as Murder for Hannah

better image than previously posted

1951 Avon reissue

1943 Avon Murder Mystery Monthly digest

cover art by William Frost (William Forrest)

1941 Knopf hardcover, first edition

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