Category: paperback

I Should Have Stayed Home x 5

first published as a hardcover in 1938 by Knopf, his third novel

1951 Signet reissue – cover art by Ray Pease

1966 Penguin UK reissue

1996 Serpent’s Tail reissue

2018 Bibliotech Press reissue

[post updated 4/10/26]

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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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