Category: pulp

cover art by Walter Popp

pen name of Milton K. Ozaki

1955 Graphic Mystery paperback original

cover art by Walter Popp

better image than previously posted

1956 Phantom paperback original from Australia

a number of changes to the cover:

– plant to phone in bottom left corner

— her hair is smoother

–yellow dress to red

–bracelet changed

–jewelry box different color

–background changed to window

–background table different, books different, bookend gone

–front table different

— mantle and logs different

–colors brighter and smoother

cover art by Clarence Doore x 2

cover art by Clarence Doore

1940 Simon and Schuster hardcover as The Bride Wore Black, first novel and the beginning of his “Black” title run

1953 Pyramid reissue

better image than previously posted

August 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine

November 1954 Popular Press paperback

November 1954 Popular Press paperback, second printing

better image than previously posted

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’”