cover art by H.J. Ward
better image than previously posted
Category: hardcover
March 1936 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
1936 Lippincott hardcover
“First Edition. ‘New York bibliophile visits the back room of Sewell’s Bookstore one evening and death strikes him down. The police arrive and discover that there is a book worth $100,000 missing.’ Uncommon bibliomystery.”
1939 Knopf hardcover – cover art by Hawkins
First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Rare hard-boiled mystery by this author who died young in 1945.
first novel with private eye Cellini Smith
there had been seven Smith short stories published in Black Mask Magazine by the time of the author’s death.
1934 Loring and Mussey hardcover
“First Edition. Author’s only mystery, one which tells the tale of gangland violence in the American west. The author was a Denver detective.“
SMB Noir 