Category: paperback

1960 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Darrell Greene

1960 Gold Medal paperback original

pseudonym of Frank E. Smith

cover art by Darrell Greene

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8th in the Peter Shelby series, set in Manhattan’s Sixth Precinct

1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by Bernard Safran

1945 hardcover, Collins in the UK and Little Brown in the US

1949 Pocket reissue

cover art by Bernard Safran

13th with Inspector Roderick Alleyn, one of two she set in her native New Zealand

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1942 Avon reissue – cover art by Gil Tompkins

published in 1936 in hardcover by Morrow

1942 Avon Books, #18

cover art by Gil Tompkins

2nd book published with this pen name and second book with newspaperman Robin Bishop

pseudonym of Daniel Mainwaring who, as Homes, wrote Build My Gallows High (1946), adapted into the classic film noir Out of the Past (1947). 2nd book published with this pen name and second book with newspaperman Robin Bishop

1930 Longman, Green hardcover – cover art by Edna Reindel

Burnett, W[illiam] R[iley]. IRON MAN. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh The Dial Press … Toronto: Longman, Green & Co., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-312, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher’s monogram stamped in blind on front panel, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. First edition. Burnett’s second novel, preceded by his well-received gangster novel, LITTLE CAESAR (1929). The story of a mechanic’s helper who becomes a prize fighter and finally middleweight champion. Hanna 527. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket (with art deco illustration by Edna Reindel) with light wear at upper spine end and corner tips and tiny, narrow chip at lower spine end.

1949 Avon reissue

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a non-mystery, it was his second novel, published the year after Little Caesar

[post updated with paperback 9/27/25]