
1963 Avon paperback original
cover art by Robert Maguire
the bullet hole in the fedora is a nice touch…

1963 Avon paperback original
cover art by Robert Maguire
the bullet hole in the fedora is a nice touch…

1944 Doubleday hardcover, The Case of the Dowager’s Etchings
1951 Popular Library paperback, Never Walk Alone
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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The first issue of this title includes stories by Walter B. Gibson (“Norgil”, the first appearance of “Norgil the Magician”), Lester Dent (the first appearance of “Click Rush the Gadget Man”), and Theodore Tinsley (the first appearance of “Carrie Cashin”, featured on the issue’s photo cover).
better image than previously posted
first published in Britain by Nicholson

1946 Farrar & Rinehart hardcover, first thus in the US

1947 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg, map by Ruth Belew
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1948 Universal Pictures, directed by Norman Foster

1948 Dell mapback with movie tie-in cover


3rd with NYC private detective Johnny Liddell

cover art by John Fernie
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1959 Dell reissue
cover art by Victor Kalin

1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English
3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani


Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed
– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –


1957 Phantom edition from Australia

