Category: paperback
The Finishing Stroke x 2
cover art by Jerry Allison
June 1963 Pocket reissue, 3rd print
cover art by Harry Bennett
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1960 Pocket paperback original
1959 Avon paperback original ~ cover art by Robert Maguire
cover art by Clarence Doore x 2
1940 Simon and Schuster hardcover as The Bride Wore Black, first novel and the beginning of his “Black” title run
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August 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
1963 Midwood paperback original
1956 Gold Medal paperback ~ cover art by Mitchell Hooks
1956 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Mitchell Hooks
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1987 Black Lizard reissue with new title
[updated 6/20/25]
November 1954 Popular Press paperback
November 1954 Popular Press paperback, second printing
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4th with private eye Timothy Dane
“When Timothy Dane is hired by a ruthless gang of hoodlums to find the killer of their chief, the tough private eye finds himself caught in a crossfire between vicious mobsters, gun-happy cops, and men living by the jungle law of the waterfront – plus a luscious show-girl whose specialty is a certain kind of ‘private party’”
cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
cover art by Paul Rader
Tempera on board, 12-7/8 x 6-7/8 inches (32.7 x 17.5 cm) (sight)
Not signed (signature whited out bottom left, visible on book’s cover)
Midwood paperback original, 1962
SMB Noir 