cover art by Albert Drake
Frederick C. Davis, “Man About Murder”
T.T. Flynn, “I’ll Bet Your Life!” (Mr. Maddox)
Robert Martin, “Doctor of Doom”
Richard Dermody, “Cupid for Cash” (Doc Pierce)
Dean Evans, “Dreams Get Blasted, Too”
Russell Branch, “A Corpse Had Cold Feet”
[updated 5/12/25]
oil on board, 16 x 12-1/2 inches (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Zuckerberg
1953 Pocket reissue
1961 Dell reissue
[post updated 12/11/25]
Burnett, W[illiam] R[iley]. IRON MAN. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh The Dial Press … Toronto: Longman, Green & Co., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-312, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher’s monogram stamped in blind on front panel, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. First edition. Burnett’s second novel, preceded by his well-received gangster novel, LITTLE CAESAR (1929). The story of a mechanic’s helper who becomes a prize fighter and finally middleweight champion. Hanna 527. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket (with art deco illustration by Edna Reindel) with light wear at upper spine end and corner tips and tiny, narrow chip at lower spine end.
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a non-mystery, it was his second novel, published the year after Little Caesar
[post updated with paperback 9/27/25]
cover art by Victor Kalin
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cover art by Dick Shelton
[updated 9/22/25]
pseudonym of Keith Carlton Robertson
first published as The Diamond-Studded Typewriter in 1958 by Macmillan
republished the following year by Dell in softcover with a new title
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[updated with cover art 8/8/25]
SMB Noir 
