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released in the UK as This Was No Accident


1941 Morrow hardcover
4th in the Bertha Cool & Donald Lam series

cover art by George A. Frederiksen/ mapback by Ruth Belew


1951 British Pocket paperback edition
cover art by Roland Davies

1959 Panther edition from Britain – cover art by Ley Kenton

1952. Dell reissue – cover art by Carl Bobertz

1957 Dell reissue – cover illustration by by Push-Pin Studios

April 1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

7th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

1948 Dell reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg
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1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley



1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Ron Lesser

1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

1948 Dutton hardcover – a Guilt Edged Selection


1951 Boardman hardcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1952 Boardman softcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin
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1958 Corgi reissue in Britain

1936 Man Overboard! by Collins in the UK and Dodd Mead in the US
abridged by Avon in 1947 and published with this alternate title
cover art by Ann Cantor



1959 Crest edition
cover art by Richard Powers


cover art by Hector Garrido

1938 Simon and Schuster hardcover

1950 Avon reissue – cover art by Ray Johnson


cover art attributed to James Avati
nice cover – nice dame, but his right leg simply doesn’t work right… it’s completely out of proportion to his body and left leg – too long!
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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First Edition.
Basis for the 1966 film noir, starring Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban and Rita Hayworth.

cover art by Harry Barton
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