
cover art by Reginald Heade
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1953 Doubleday hardcover, this a later, 1955, reprint
also released as A Big Hand for the Corpse by the Detective Book Club in 1955
“George Bagby” was one of the pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein, who also published as Hampton Stone
cover art by Victor Kalin
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Gina Lollobrigida in The Law (1960), illustration by Yves Thos