
Beacon Books, New York, 1955
Banned: 27 August 1956 to 13 October 1971
1955 Beacon paperback original – cover art by Frank Uppwall
better image than previously posted

Beacon Books, New York, 1955
Banned: 27 August 1956 to 13 October 1971
1955 Beacon paperback original – cover art by Frank Uppwall
better image than previously posted

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


published in 1949 by Collins in London and Doubleday in NYC
born in Rangoon, Morna Doris Brown wrote as Elizabeth Ferrars in England but the US publishers changed it to E.X. Ferrars.
cover art by Frank Smith
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1953 E. P. Dutton, 1953, first edition. A Gilt Edged Mystery.

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

1958 Gold Medal reissue – cover art attributed to James Meese


1960 Digit UK paperback – not the MacDonald but same art


1950 Handi-Book digest original
cover art by George Gross



cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

1963 Beacon paperback original with updated artwork

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

cover art by Norman Saunders
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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”
