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”
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1941 Morrow hardcover, his 5th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
1942 Dell mapback reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg
1951 British Publishers Guild reissue
1953 Dell reissue, cover art by Fred Scotwood
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1960 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Stanley Borack
1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett
2022 Mysterious Press/Open Road reissue
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1948 Dutton hardcover
his second book, also second with Ed and Am Hunter
cover art for this 1954 Bantam paperback by Charles Binger
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[artist credit corrected 6/30/26]
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 Paul Stahr
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cover art by Clark Hulings
[post updated 4/4/26]
