republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death, Asimov’s preferred title
1970 Sphere edition from the UK
1958 Avon reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire
Category: whodunnit
1961 Heinemann hardcover
published that same year in the US by Doubleday as The White Savage
26th with Australia’s most brilliant detective, Napoleon Bonaparte, referred to as “Bony”
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Curtain for a Jester x 2
1946 Avon reissue – over by Renaldo Epworth
1933 Warner Brothers
based on the book The Kennel Murder Case by S.S Van Dine
actors Eugene Pallette, William Powell, and Robert McWade
Powell played amateur sleuth Philo Vance in a series of movies based on the books
1945 Pocket reissue
1945 Pocket reissue
the book where Lord Peter Wimsey meets mystery writer Harriet Vane and falls in love
1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Len Oehmen
1942 Dodd Mead hardcover
cover art by Len Oehmen
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3rd in the witty and sophisticated series with amateur sleuths Jeff and Haila Troy. “Kelley Roos” was a pseudonym for the husband-and-wife writing team of Audrey Kelley Roos and William Roos
1959 Avon reissue – cover art by George Gross
originally published in 1932 by Viking as by Barnaby Ross. 2nd in the cousin’s series with actor/sleuth Drury Lane.
cover art by George Gross
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1951 Avon reissue
5th in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, originally published in 1930 – this a later reissue and, certainly, ‘pulped up’ and made to appear much more hardboiled. It is also the novel in which Lord Peter first meets the love of his life, mystery writer Harriet Vane
1957 Perma reissue – cover art by James Meese
1956 Harper hardcover, re-titled by Collins for the UK hardcover that same year as Death in Grease Paint
first of his two mysteries with Howie Rook, middle-aged, over-weight former newspaperman and draws on the author’s own experience as a clown with the Ringling Brothers Circus
cover art by James Meese
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