Tag: bantam paperback

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

Gouache on board, 22 x 16-1/2 inches (55.9 x 41.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right

The work is published in The Bramble Bush by David Duncan (Macmillan, 1948).

1953 Pocket reissue

cover art by James Meese

1953 Bantam reissue

cover art by James Meese

cover art by Mitchell Hooks

Cover illustration for “Million Dollar Murder” by Thomas Black (Bantam Mystery, 1956), reprint of “Four Dead Mice” (Rinehart & Company, 1954), with Bantam’s inventory label on verso. Pen, ink, and gouache on board. 635×337 mm; 25×13 1/4 inches. Signed “M. Hooks” in right image.

Meet Me at the Morgue x 9

1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English

one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers

better image than previously posted

1954 Pocket reissue

cover art by Clark Hulings

1954 Great Pan Book edition

cover art by Sam Peffer

May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print

cover art by Frank Kalen

better image than previously posted

1967 Pocket reissue

1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print

1984 Bantam reissue

1991 Warner reissue

2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

[updated 9/13/25]