
pseudonym of Frank Hugh Usher, who also wrote as Frank Lester
first published in 1950 by Collins
cover art by John A. Fernie
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pseudonym of Frank Hugh Usher, who also wrote as Frank Lester
first published in 1950 by Collins
cover art by John A. Fernie
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cover art by Freeman Eliot
his first book with this character, Mickey Denton
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pseudonym of Frederick C. Davis
1960 Doubleday hardcover, a Crime Club selection, this the later UK paperback

1960 Signet paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
3rd with Aloysius Algernon Steele, a private eye who prefers to be called “Rocky”
West was a black physician who lived in Liberia and specialized in tropical diseases, and who wrote hardboiled pulp about a white shamus in NYC

cover art by Victor Kalin
3rd Florida with private eye Brad Dolan
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