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reissues of Woolrich classics from Centipede Press

Woolrich classics from Centipede Press

1948 British hardcover from Cassel ~ cover art by Reginald Heade

1948 British hardcover from Cassel

cover art by Reginald Heade

better image than previously posted

1978 Random House first edition hardcover

1978 Random House first edition hardcover, a modern classic

cover illustration by Stan Zagorowoski

1st novel with private eye C.W. Sughrue with begins with the masterful and oft-quoted sentence: “When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.”

Elizabeth Short ~ The Black Dahlia

1943 mugshot of Elizabeth Short, destined to be known throughout history as The Black Dahlia

Short in 1946

Her remains found on January 15, 1947

39th St and Norton. The body dump site of the Black Dahlia

September 1987 Mysterious Press hardcover

cover art by Stephen Peringer

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1932 Covici Friede hardcover

1932 Covici Friede hardcover

cover art by Charles H. Alson

credited as being the first mystery published by a black American writer as well as the first mystery to have only black characters and feature the first black detective.

published in 1932 during the great Harlem Renaissance, Fisher was a man of many talents: physician, radiologist, orator, musician and writer. He died far too young, in 1934, after unsuccessful surgery.