Crime novel by Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac published in paperback by Arrow. Originally published in the UK as The Woman Who Was in 1954 and two years before in Paris as Celle Qui N’Etais Plus. Made into the classic film Les Diaboliques
1950 Lion paperback original
pen name of Bruno Fischer
cover art by Julian Paul
cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
[post updated 9/30/25]
1962 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Mitchell Hooks
published as Finally Sunday! and filmed by Francois Truffaut as Confidentially Yours
1957 Gold Medal paperback original
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joint pseudonym of Charles Nutt and John Tomerlin, the only book they did together
November 1960 Pocket paperback reissue, fifth printing
cover art by Charles Binger?
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1955 Simon and Schuster hardcover, this the 1959 Dell reissue
cover art by Robert McGinnis
2nd book with NYPD Lt. Timothy Trant
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edited by Sarah Weinman, an historical survey of the “Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense”.
authors include Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Helen Neilsen, Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar and Vera Caspary.
[last cover updated 4/13/25]
SMB Noir 