James Hadley Chase – I Would Rather Stay Poor (“Hän ei saa kuolla”)
Manhattan paperback #81
Finnish edition
Category: paperback
1949 Avon paperback – cover art by Ann Cantor)
1938 McBride hardcover
cover art by Ann Cantor
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basis for the 1947 film noir
1959 Pyramid paperback – cover art by Harry Schaare
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
1957 Dell paperback – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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
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December 1943 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
1965 Signet edition – cover art by Barye Phillips
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
1951 Pocket reprint – cover art by Ray App
1950 Morrow hardcover, this the later 1951 Pocket reprint
cover art by Ray App
his 5th novel
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So Young, So Wicked x 2
pseudonym of Frank E. Smith
1957 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by William Rose
non-series noir thriller
a syndicate killer has a contract to take out this 15-year-old who has played the risky game of blackmailing mobsters.
undated Gold Medal reissue
cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted
1957 Dell reissue – cover art by Arthur Sussman
originally published in 1955 by Dodd as The Beckoning Dream
this the 1957 re-titled Dell paperback
cover art by Arthur Sussman
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by a noted and influential Science Fiction Grand Master
1950 Beacon – first paperback reissue with different title
1952 Harlequin paperback reissue with the original title
SMB Noir 
