cover art by Norman Saunders
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Category: finest kind
April 1937 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
cover art by Ron Lesser
Ron Lesser
Thrilling Detective, Deadly Dames #1, unpublished painting
Oil on Masonite
24 x 19.25 in.
Signed lower right
November 1929 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
November 1929 issue, Joseph T. Shaw, editor
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cover painting by J.W. Schlaikjer
Frederick Nebel, “Hell-Smoke” (Capt. MacBride novelette)
Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon” (part two of the serialized novel before publication as a novel – first appearance of this section- not even mentioned on the cover)
Earl and Marion Scott, “The Second Spartan”
Carroll John Daly, “The Silver Eagle” (Race Williams novelette)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Brass Tacks” (Ed Jenkins novelette)
Tom Curry, “The Man from Headquarters”
Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Demon in the Canyon”
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
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cover art by Robert McGinnis
1946 Dell mapback paperback original
February 1960 Dell reissue, 1st print
cover art by Robert McGinnis
July 1945 ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll
G.T. Fleming -Roberts, “Lady Killer!“
D.L. Champion, “Yuma Appointment”
Frances Beck, “The Last, Long Ride”
Cyril Plunkett, “Second Kill”
Henry Norton, “Cadaver Wanted—Dead or Alive!“
Frances M. Deegan, “Torch Song”
Robert C. Dennis, “Crabtree’s Favorite Corpse”
Francis K. Allan, “Stand-in for Death”
Day Keene, “Murder on My Mind”
July 1, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Howitt
Meet Me at the Morgue x 9
1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English
one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers
better image than previously posted
cover art by Clark Hulings
cover art by Sam Peffer
May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print
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1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print
2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
[updated 9/13/25]
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