
cover art by Robert McGinnis

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.

1952 Dell mapback reissue
1950 Random House hardcover
cover illustration by Eddie Chan
better image than previously posted

1951 Lippencott hardcover
1952 UK Bloodhound paperback reissue
cover art by Dennis McLoughlin
4th with Peter Chambers, private eye (Kane disliked the term ‘private dick’ , preferring ‘private richard’)

August 1959 Dell reissue, first printing
completed by Ed McBain after Rice’s death
cover painting by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted
