Category: Hardboiled
August 1930 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer
1965 Signet edition ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis
1966 Signet reissue
December 25, 1939 issue ~ cover art by Hubert Rogers
HO HO HO – – –
Merry Christmas from U.N.C.L.E., Robert Vaughn
December 25, 1943 issue ~ cover art by Pete Kuhlhoff
A little Christmas Eve crime
2000 Ballantine hardcover, first printing
debut novel by Phillips, surely a contemporary noir classic
Christmas Eve heist, Wichita, 1979 – what could go wrong?
December 1933 issue ~ cover art by Dominic Cammerota
Holiday Heist
1990 St. Martins hardcover, 1st print
1990 St. Martin’s mass market reissue
An ex-cop, burned out in a dead-end job, is enticed by an alluring co-worker into a plan to rob the chain of stores for which they work on Christmas Eve. Great dark comic noir.
SMB Noir 
