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first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s “Noon Street Nemesis”, which would later be reissued as “Pick-Up on Noon Street” for The Simple Art of Murder
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1950 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first edition
surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff
first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s “Noon Street Nemesis”, which would later be reissued as “Pick-Up on Noon Street” for The Simple Art of Murder
1950 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first edition
surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff