
1959 Morrow US first edition

1960 Heinemann UK first edition

1961 Corgi reissue from the UK

1962 Pocket reissue, cover art by Harry Bennett

1963 Corgi reissue from the UK

1964 Pocket reissue, 3rd print


1959 Morrow US first edition

1960 Heinemann UK first edition

1961 Corgi reissue from the UK

1962 Pocket reissue, cover art by Harry Bennett

1963 Corgi reissue from the UK

1964 Pocket reissue, 3rd print


~ Carl Clausen, “The Turquoise Ring”, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Cyril J. Conrad, “A Breath of Suspicion”, only story in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Buzzard Bait”, 2nd of 7 with Black Bear, 18th of 99 stories in BM
~ Donald MacGregor, “Full Speed Ahead”, last of 10 stories
~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 1st of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927
~ Hal Rammel, “So Spake the Prophet”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Sarah Harbine Weaver, “A Knight’s Night Out”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
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1949 Dell paperback original – cover art by Carl Mueller

All True Fact Crime October 1950 and Detective Yearbook 1954


artwork repurposed for 1959 The Private Life Of A Strip-Tease Girl



cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

1958 Bestseller Library edition

cover art by Edgar Hodges