Category: paperback

1959 J reissue – cover art by Giovanni Benvenuti

1959 J reissue, #71

cover art by Giovanni Benvenuti

one of John Creasey’s many pseudonyms (he used 20 or so with his 500 plus novels)

the Ashe books featured Patrick Dawlish and this is the 21st, published by Evans in 1949

1960 Great Pan reissue

“Patrick Quentin” was the pseudonym of Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb

1960 Great Pan reissue

published in the US in 1952 as Black Widow, a Simon & Schuster hardcover. published the following year in the UK by Gollancz with this different title. 8th with Broadway producer Peter Duluth.

cover art by Sam Peffer?

1949 Bantam reissue – cover art by William Wirtz

1938 Heinemann hardcover in the UK, published in the US that same year by Viking. this the later Bantam softcover

murder of a stool pigeon by a penny-ante race track gang lead by a malicious teenage boy.

better image than previously posted

1952 Dell reprint – cover art by James Meese

pseudonym of Johannes Matthijs Willem Knipscheer

1951 Little Brown hardcover, The Aleutian Blue Mink, this the 1952 Dell reprint with the new title

cover art by James Meese

8th with the husband-and-wife sleuthing team of John and Suzy Marshall

November 07, 2013