Jealous Woman x 3

1950 Avon Monthly Novel digest original – first appearance

cover art by Mike Doyle

1951 Avon paperback – first mass market

cover art attributed to Barye Phillips

better image than previously posted

1959 UK Ace release

cover art by John Vernon

better image than previously posted

Roeburt x 3 + 1

1951 Graphic reissue

first published in 1946 by Mystery House as There are Dead Men in Manhattan. in addition to this 1957 title from Avon, it was published in 1951 as Manhattan Underworld (1951, Harlequin) and as Triple Cross (1962, Belmont). not known if the other editions were also ‘revised’

cover art by Robert Maguire

Avon cover art repurposed for this 1959 Digit release

Homicide for Hannah x 4

1941 Knopf hardcover, 1945 Avon reissue

cover art by Paul Stahr

published by Hale in the UK as Murder for Hannah

better image than previously posted

1951 Avon reissue

1943 Avon Murder Mystery Monthly digest

cover art by William Frost (William Forrest)

1941 Knopf hardcover, first edition

The second appearance of the character Hanna Van Doren, considered the first female hard-boiled detective in American literature.”