
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted

cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
The Editors, “Meeting the Story-Maker – Donald G. Cormack”
Ray King, “Brides for Murdered Men”
Dane Gregory, “Golden Lady of Death” (Rocky Rhodes)
Russell Gray, “Girls for the Coffin Syndicate” (Ben Bryn)
W. Wayne Robbins, “Mad Is the Flesh-Master!“
Donald G. Cormack, “Satan’s Surgeon”, given as “Corpse Surgeon” on the cover (Tom Cardigan)
(cover art repurposed from January 1935 issue)

1943 William Morrow and Co., first edition

1949 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg


1961 Corgi reissue from Australia

1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis





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



1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes

1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

cover art by Harry Bennett

later Consul issue from the UK
pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein
30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad

1961 Collins hardcover, true first with original title – cover designed by Pino Dell-Orco

1962 Collins hardcover, 2nd printing

1962 Scribners hardcover in the US


1963 Popular Library reissue, a paperback original in the US
the back of the book gave away the author’s true name



1968 Fontana reissue – cover art by Renato Fratini

1970 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Bill Johnson





1948 Simon and Schuster hardcover

cover art by Gerald Gregg/ map by Ruth Belew


1951 Boardman hardcover from the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1955 Boardman UK softcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

