
1955 Popular Library paperback original


cover art by Robert McGinnis
first published in Australia by Horowitz, 1962, then in the US by Signet, a paperback original
cover art repurposed for 1967 Signet by James Dark


first published as a hardcover in 1938 by Knopf, his third novel
1951 Signet reissue
cover art by Ray Pease

James Hadley Chase – I Would Rather Stay Poor (“Hän ei saa kuolla”)
Manhattan paperback #81

1938 McBride hardcover
cover art by Ann Cantor
better image than previously posted
basis for the 1947 film noir


Gloria and Forrest E. Fickling
1959 Pyramid paperback original
4th with private eye Honey West
cover art by Harry Schaare
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later Pyramid reissue – tie-in to the TV show


pseudonym of E. Howard Hunt, CIA spook, Nixon bag-man, Watergate op and spy novelist
1957 Dell paperback original with DC accountant Steve Bentley – this the first in that series.
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted

1965 Signet
Australian paperback thriller by “James Dark” (house name, used i.e. by James Macdonnell). The American edition cover: Barye Phillips.
better image than previously posted