
Category: Hardboiled
Dark Interlude or The Terrible Night x 7 +

1947 UK hardcover from Collins and US hardcover from Dodd Mead

1949 Bantam reissue – cover art by C.C. Beall

sketch for the cover by Sam Peffer


1959 Avon edition – cover art by Darcy

1960 UK paperback reissue – cover art by Sam Peffer

1962 Fontana reissue – cover art by John L. Baker

1965 Fontana UK reissue – cover art by Renato Fratini.
The Blackboard Jungle x 8

1954 Simon and Schuster 1st edition, signed

1955 Cardinal reissue – cover art by Clark Hulings

1957 Panther movie tie-in from the UK – cover by Cy Webb

1960 Panther reissue – cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)


1964 Panther reissue from the UK
better image than previously posted

1966 Dell reissue – cover art by James Bama

1976 Avon reissue – cover art by G.D. Lang
1953 Ace Double reissue

pseudonym of Howard Fast
1952 from Little as Fallen Angel, 1953 Ace Double reissue with new title
filmed by Universal in 1965 as Mirage, directed by Edward Dmytryk and again in 1968 as Jigsaw, directed by James Goldstone
better image than previously posted
Sins of the Road
1956 Popular Library paperback original
1958 Avon paperback original ~ cover art by Harry Schaare
1960 Avon paperback original – cover art by Darcy
May 25, 1924 issue ~ cover art by James Reynolds
January 1927 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

cover art by Fred Craft
~ Tom Curry, “The Stoolie”, 6th of 23 stories with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, 10th of 39 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Twenty Grand”, ‘Benny Slawson, “product of Delancey Street”’, 25th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Whispering Sand”, 3rd of 7 with Black Barr, 21st of 99 stories in BM
~ Westmoreland Gray, “Slayer’s Finesse”, ‘Wallace McNeel, private ‘shoe, & police captain’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Pilgrim Ship”, 3rd of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Reformation of Ace Brand”, “border story’, 4th of 39 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Dumb Luck”, ‘Whitey Fleer, professional crook in NYC‘, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 3 of 67 stories
~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 4th of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927
~ L.R. Sherman, “The Last Cartridge”, ‘The Frozen North’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Uneasy Money”, ‘aviation on the border; Buck, 1st person narrator’, 9th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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