1961 Ace Double paperback original
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Category: paperback
Seven Slayers x 5
1946 Chartered digest paperback original
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1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine
“Black” (May 1932)
“Red 71” (December 1932)
“Parlor Trick” (July 1932)
“One, Two, Three” (May 1933)
“Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine
“Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)
“Pineapple” (March 1936)
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue
cover art by Joe Servello
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Howard Brown publishing as John Evans
May 1946 Bobbs-Merrill hardcover
December 1946 Bantam paperback reissue
His first with Chicago private eye Paul Pine, a terrific Chandleresque series that is far too little known
February 1958 reissue, 3rd printing
1984 Quill reissue, 1st printing
cover art by Steve Macanga
cover art by Robert Maguire
June 1956 Signet reissue, first printing
cover art by Robert Maguire
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posed photo from which Maguire worked
Behold This Woman x 2
1947 Appleton hardcover, this the Bantam softcover released the next year
cover art by William Shoyer
his fourth novel
1956 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Owen Kampen
The Case of the Cautious Coquette x 2
February 1959 Cardinal paperback reissue, first printing
cover painting by John Fernie
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November 1963 Pocket paperback reissue, 8th printing
cover painting by Robert McGinnis
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1974 Holloway House paperback original
pen name of Jopseh Gober Nazel, who wrote 60 books about the black experience in LA
first of four novels with L.A. police officer James Rhodes
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1951 Pocket reissue
one of SMB founder Bill Farley’s Top Five Mysteries of all time. Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men’s wives, and the list of people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of those solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, this is both a classic of the golden age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle-mysteries of all time.
cover art by Gerald Gregg
originally published in Sept. 1941 issue of Black Mask Magazine as “Killers are Camera Shy”,
1948 Dell mapback, mapback by Ruth Belew
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May 1952 Signet paperback
oil on board, 17-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches (44.5 x 36.2 cm)
Signed center left side: Kimmel
May 1952 Signet paperback, first printing
5th novel, a stand-alone thriller
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[updated with original art 11/5/25]
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