cover art by Walter Baumhofer
[cover updated 11/17/25]
Category: hardcover
1932 Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1932 Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
“True First Edition (and Photoplay Edition of sorts). Mach Tey dustjacket art featuring the actress Louise Brooks. Author’s first book. Chicago underworld, gang warfare and murder. ‘You’ll love this heroine who staked her life to save her brother from the trap into which they had both fallen’.”
March 1934 issue ~ cover art by J. George Janes
November 1936 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
December 1955 issue
February 18, 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
May 1933 issue ~ cover art by Sidney Riesenberg
2010 Subteranean hardcover – cover art by Glen Orbik
cover art by Glen Orbik
2010 omnibus of three novels Block and Westlake wrote together: A Girl Called Honey, So Willing, and Sin Hellcat
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?
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 