
cover art by Norman Saunders


July 1922 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz

~ John Baer, “Have A Smoke?”, 20th of 24 stories in BM
~ George Briggs, “By His Own Hand –“, 2nd of 2 BM stories
~ T.B. Burt, “Red Hot”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick Ames Coates, “The Accident”, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ J.S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher, “Exterior to the Evidence”, 4th of 5 parts, ‘serial re-run of novel 1st pub in London (1920) with same title’, 4th of 6 appearances in BM
~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Crimsoned Baubles”, 4th of 8 stories in BM
~ Harry C. Hervey, Jr., “The Devil at the Helm”, ‘A Complete Novelette’, last of 8 appearances in BM
~ George B. Jenkins, Jr., “Two Faultless Crimes”, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ Lloyd Lonergan, “In the Grip of the Everglades”, 8th and final story in BM
~ Fred B. Mann, “An Affair of Honor”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Howard P. Rockey, “When Lightning Strikes”, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
~ J.J. Stagg, “Post-Mortem Murder”, 9th of 11 stories in BM
~ Harold Ward, “The Mystery of the Mary Ann”, 24th of 29 stories under this name in BM [39th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

August 1943 issue – faux cover, not published


1956 Simon and Schuster hardcover
1959 Pyramid paperback reissue
cover art by Robert Maguire
better image than previously posted

Robert Maguire (American, 1921-2005)
Gouache on board, 17 x 14 inches (43.2 x 35.6 cm)
Not signed
cover of Time To Kill by Geoffrey Household (Pyramid, 1964).



~ Norman A. Daniels, “My Dying Day”, Rick Trent, ex-PI, ex-con, 1st person narrator, 2nd of 4 stories in BM
~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Don’t Look Behind You”, 4th of 8 stories in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Manhattan Horse Opera”, 1of 6 stories in BM
~ Tom Marvin, “Blood-Red and Beautiful”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Burt Sims, “To Each His Corpse”, ‘diminutive Clint Morgan, Hollywood eye’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Murder Makes the Cock Crow”, ‘Malott & McCool, L.A. gamblers’, 4th of 6 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

1958 Horwitz paperback original

1959 US release as a Signet paperback original
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

1961 Horwitz International Edition

cover art by Ron Lesser
1966 Signet reissue



1960 paperback original by Horowitz in Australia and Signet in the US

cover art by Barye Phillips

given date is 1959 Dutch edition

1967 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

McGinnis sketch for Signet reissue cover

cover art by McGinnis for 1972 Signet reissue
