
1959 Ace Double paperback original
cover art by Paul Rader
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1954 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
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second of two uses of this joint pen name of Davis Dresser (aka Brett Halliday) and Walter Ryerson Johnson

Bogard was the pseudonym of Douglas Stallard Enefer
1952 Harlequin paperback original
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cover art by Robert Stanley
1948 Rinehart hardcover, this the 1950 Dell mapback
Hamilton’s second novel, his first Matt Helm was 13 years away
evil smile on that dame’s face…
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14th in his long-running 87th Precinct series
1961 Simon & Schuster hardcover
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cover art by Robert McGinnis

5th in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, originally published in 1930 – this a later reissue and, certainly, ‘pulped up’ and made to appear much more hardboiled. It is also the novel in which Lord Peter first meets the love of his life, mystery writer Harriet Vane

1951 Dell mapback – cover art by Barye Phillips
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1949 Random House hardcover
her 18th with Insp. Christopher McKee, the Scotsman in charge of the Manhattan Homicide Squad


1950 Jenkins hardcover in the UK, published as a US hardcover by Random House in 1949, this the later Graphic softcover
far from his Fu Manchu thrillers, Hangover House was based on his unproduced stage play, a traditional manor house whodunnit.
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Cornell Woolrich writing under the pen name William Irish
published in hardcover by Rinehart in 1951, this the later 1952 Popular Library softcover
his last novel published as William Irish
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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