1950 Handi-Book digest original
cover art by George Gross
cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
1963 Beacon paperback original with updated artwork
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Category: pulp
Clean Break into The Killing
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition. In publisher’s trial dust jacket, date stamped March 1, 1955, on the bottom of the front flap.
Basis for Stanley Kubrick’s breakthrough 1956 film “The Killing,” starring Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles.
1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire
1988 Black Lizard reissue – cover art by Kirwin
1956 United Artists – written and directed by Stanley Kubrick
February 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Robert Martin, “Death Under Glass” (Lee Fisk)
Hank Searls, “For Tomorrow We Die”
Talmage Powell, “Nobody’s Darling”
Frederick C. Davis, “Furlough for Murder” (reprint from 1943)
Larry Holden, “Prelude for Wake”
Don James, “G-String Kill”
John Bender, “In Jail By Christmas” (published in 1941 as “Prelude to an Operation”)
Ray Darby, “According to Plan”
1953 Ace paperback original – cover art by Julian Paul
1948 Bantam reissue
1959 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare
pseudonym of Keith Carlton Robertson
first published as The Diamond-Studded Typewriter in 1958 by Macmillan
republished the following year by Dell in softcover with a new title
better image than previously posted
[updated with cover art 8/8/25]
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