
1954 Avon paperback original under the pseudonym

1958 Avon reissue with author’s real name

1958 Avon paperback original – cover art by Robert Maguire

1958 Sphere UK paperback original with new title

republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death




undated Lancer reissue from the 70s



3rd novel with Hollywood trouble-shooter Bill Lennox who works for the General Consolidated Studios

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1954 Graphic reissue – cover art by Walter Popp

1958 Banner reissue in the UK – cover art by Stanley Borack

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


March 11, 1939 issue – cover art by Emmett Watson



July 1952 Signet reissue, 3rd printing
cover art by Maurice Thomas – better image than previously posted

cover art by Robert Schulz
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It was first published in 1939 by Hodder and Stoughton in the United Kingdom and by the Crime Club in the United States.



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1954 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Saul Tepper

published by Cassel in London, 1965, as Mix Yourself a Redhead


cover art by Chuck Pyle

September 1961 Gold Medal paperback original
better image than previously posted
later republished as Coward’s Kiss, 1996, Carroll & Graf mass market

