
1961 Beacon paperback original
pseudonym of Lawrence Block
reissued in Jan. 2008 by Hard Case Crime as A Diet of Treacle
cover art by Chuck Pyle


1961 Beacon paperback original
pseudonym of Lawrence Block
reissued in Jan. 2008 by Hard Case Crime as A Diet of Treacle
cover art by Chuck Pyle


1940 Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

8th in the Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin series

1956 Simon & Schuster hardcover
cover art by Victor Kalin
6th with attorney/sleuth Scott Jordan
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1947 Knopf hardcover, this the later 1952 Dell reissue
cover art by James Meese
9th with newspaper photographer Kent Murdock
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Bryan, Michael (pseudonym of Brian Moore). MURDER IN MAJORCA. [New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1957.]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell #A145. Paperback original. Mystery novel. A fine copy. Unread; scarce in this condition.
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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

originally published in English as The Stain on the Snow in 1953 by Rutledge. The 1948 French title was La Neige Etait Sale. Also listed as Dirty Snow
not an Inspector Maigret novel

1945 hardcover, Collins in the UK and Little Brown in the US
cover art by Bernard Safran
13th with Inspector Roderick Alleyn, one of two she set in her native New Zealand