
1943 William Morrow and Co., first edition

1949 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg


1961 Corgi reissue from Australia

1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis





1943 William Morrow and Co., first edition

1949 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg


1961 Corgi reissue from Australia

1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis





1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes

1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

cover art by Harry Bennett

later Consul issue from the UK
pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein
30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad

1961 Collins hardcover, true first with original title – cover designed by Pino Dell-Orco

1962 Collins hardcover, 2nd printing

1962 Scribners hardcover in the US


1963 Popular Library reissue, a paperback original in the US
the back of the book gave away the author’s true name



1968 Fontana reissue – cover art by Renato Fratini

1970 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Bill Johnson





1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover

1948 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg, map by Ruth Belew
better image than previously posted

1950 Boardman hardcover from the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin


better image than previously posted


1951 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Rudolph Belarski

1961 Simon and Schuster hardcover, first edition

1961 Black Cat mass market from Grove Press

1966 Hodder paperback from the UK

1966 Pyramid reissue movie tie-in

filmed by Stanley Donen as Arabesque, 1966, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren


New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous published novel. This fix-up novel used several pulp stories which was tied together and fleshed out by Robert Leslie Bellem.

1951 Signet, first paperback reissue
cover art by Carl Bobertz
better image than previously posted


Doubleday, Doran and Co. for The Crime Club, 1941.First Edition stated. Uncommon gambling and card cheating murder mystery. Near Fine in Very Good attractive dustjacket.

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar
1951 Crown hardcover
1952 Signet reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare
better image than previously posted

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

cover art by Denis McLoughlin