1952 Popular Library – cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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

better image than previously posted

1957 Perma reissue – cover art by James Meese

1956 Harper hardcover, re-titled by Collins for the UK hardcover that same year as Death in Grease Paint

first of his two mysteries with Howie Rook, middle-aged, over-weight former newspaperman and draws on the author’s own experience as a clown with the Ringling Brothers Circus

cover art by James Meese

October 02, 2013

A Hell of a Woman x 6

1954 Lion paperback original

1`956 Lion reissue – cover art by Morgan Kane

1962 Pyramid reissue, cover art by Mort Engel

1984 Black Lizard reissue – over by Nancy MacGregor

1990 Black Lizard reissue

2014 Mulholand reissue