
1959 Ace Double paperback

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.
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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

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