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February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”

Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)   

Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”

Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”

Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”

Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”

Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”

John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”

Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill” 

R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”

[cover updated 2/4/26]

1930 Longman, Green hardcover – cover art by Edna Reindel

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.

1949 Avon reissue

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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]

1959 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare

cover art by Harry Schaare

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]