
Headquarters Detective x 2
May 1948 issue
1952 Dell mapback – cover art by Willard Downes

pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, just one of the many pen-names he used.
1950 Dutton hardcover, this the later 1`952 Dell softcover
his seventh novel, third with hotel detective Gil Vine
cover art by Willard Downes
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1949 Popular Library reissue – cover art by Rudolph Belarski

first published with the pseudonym Stephen Acre in 1942 by Dodd Mead
this the later Popular Library softcover under his own name
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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]
The Case of the Sunbather’s Diary x 7

1955 Morrow hardcover / 50th Perry Mason novel

1958 Cardinal reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks

Heinemann released the UK hardcover in 1961
1963 Pan reissue – cover art by Harry Sheldon
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1963 Pocket reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1970s Mayflower edition from the UK


The Case of the Smoking Chimney x 5


2nd book with Gramps Wiggins
cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff

1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
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1963 Horwitz edition from Australia

1963 British edition from Penguin
cover art by Sheila Perry
1966 Dell paperback original – cover art by Victor Livoti

1966 Dell paperback original
cover art by Victor Livoti
his 28th with private eye Johnny Liddell
1957 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Mitchell Hooks

1957 Gold Medal paperback original
8th with private eye Ed Noon
cover art by Mitchell Hooks
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