1953 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
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his third book, later reprinted as The Hot Spot, made into a movie directed by Dennis Hopper in 1990, staring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly and Virginia Madsen
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Oscar Schisgall, “Gambling Man” (Danny Fenton)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Curse” (Needle Mike)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Dead Sees Red”
William Edward Hayes, “Hot Shot to Hell” (Dan Howell)
O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Watch (Tuttle and Tommy Merkle)
cover art by Tom Lovell
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[original art added 8/13/25]
SMB Noir 
