cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “ The Girl Who Wanted Money”
Hank Napheys, “Slayer, Come Back to Me” (reprint from 1946)
Larry Holden, “The High Cost of Chivalry”
Stewart Sterling, “Dying Room Only” (reprint from 1943)
Philip Weck, “Forgotten Killer”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Incident at Opunohu”
Philip Ketchum, “The Cop with All the Luck”
Rufus Bakalor, “Hundred Grand Feature”
Robert M. Hodges, “Wellspring of Murder”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Mel Cotton, “Kill and Make Up” (Det. Winters)
Talmage Powell, “There Was a Crooked Man”
Cornell Woolrich, “The Fatal Footlights” (reprinted from 1941)
Walter Snow, “Exclusive Sucker”
W.P. Brothers, “Mourner’s Bench”
Harvey Weinstein, “Spoiler for a Wise Guy”
Robert Martin, “Murder on the Make”
1951 Dell mapback – cover art by Barye Phillips
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1949 Random House hardcover
her 18th with Insp. Christopher McKee, the Scotsman in charge of the Manhattan Homicide Squad
1950 Jenkins hardcover in the UK, published as a US hardcover by Random House in 1949, this the later Graphic softcover
far from his Fu Manchu thrillers, Hangover House was based on his unproduced stage play, a traditional manor house whodunnit.
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Merle Constiner, “Parade of Empty Shoes” (The Dean)
Norbert Davis, “Take It From Me” (Bail-Bond Dodd)
Day Keene, “The Female is More Deadly” (P.I. Case)
Tom Marvin, “The Ghost Wore His Hat” (Shag Kyper)
D.L. Champion, “Imperfect Alibi”
Cornell Woolrich writing under the pen name William Irish
published in hardcover by Rinehart in 1951, this the later 1952 Popular Library softcover
his last novel published as William Irish
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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SMB Noir 