
cover art by Victor Kalin
better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted

cover art by Dick Shelton
[updated 9/22/25]

cover art by Victor Kalin
better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted

cover art by Dick Shelton
[updated 9/22/25]

1961 Gold Medal paperback original
Charles Willeford writing under this pseudonym
author’s only crime novel under this name
cover art by Robert Abbett
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3rd Matt Helm thriller, 1961 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
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Beacon Books, New York, 1955
Banned: 27 August 1956 to 13 October 1971
1955 Beacon paperback original – cover art by Frank Uppwall
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1960 Newsstand Library paperback original
cover art by Robert Bonfils
Willeford’s original title was The Director
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1960 Macmillan hardcover, winner of the Cock Robin award.
this the later 1961 Ace reissue
1967 British paperback from Four Square
