finest kind – Page 2

The Dead Ringer

1948 Dutton hardcover, this the later 1949 Bantam reissue

cover art by Robert Stanley

better image than previously posted

his second novel

2nd in his Edgar-winning series with amateur sleuths Ed and Am Hunter

cover art repurposed for 1952 Presses de la cité edition

Recueil de 3 nouvelles : La rousse rafle tout (“Finger Man”) – La porte de bronze (“The Bronze Door”) (nouvelle fantastique)- Un crime fait de chic (“Smart-Aleck Kill”) – Complété par l’essai “Le crime est un art simple”(“The Simple Art of Murder”) ‎

The Mistress x 5 + 1

1958 Horwitz paperback original

1959 US release as a Signet paperback original

cover art attributed to Barye Phillips

better image than previously posted

1961 Horwitz International Edition

cover art by Ron Lesser

1966 Signet reissue

January 31, 2015

2021 Stark House reissue

June 1948 – premier issue ~ cover art by George Gross

June 1948 – premier issue

cover art by George Gross

July 1, 1930 issue ~ cover art by Remington Schuyler

July 1, 1930

cover art by Remington Schuyler

better image than previously posted

January 1935 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

January 1935 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

~ Raymond Chandler, “Killer in the Rain”, unnamed LA PI, 1^st person, first book appearance in the anthology Killer in the Rain (Hammish Hamilton, UK hardcover, 3/26/64, US edition by Houghton Mifflin, 1964), various paperback editions, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 4th of 11 stories in BM [Chandler would “cannibalize” this story for The Big Sleep – note the totem with the camera lens.]

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Murder Picture”, 7^th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 7^th of 31 stories in BM

~ George Alden Edson, “Hot Lead”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Winged Lead”, ‘Bald Pete’, character’s only appearance in BM, 84th of 99 stories in BM

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