bertha cool – SMB Noir

1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Fred Scotwood

cover art by Fred Scotwood

better image than previously posted

1941 Morrow hardcover, his 5th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

cover art by Maurice Thomas

better image than previously posted

9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

published in 1951 by Heinemann in London as An Axe to Grind. this the 1960 Australian edition by Horowitz

cover art by Harry Bennett

better image than previously posted

cover art by Robert McGinnis

aka Erle Stanley Gardner

1949 Morrow hardcover, 12th in the series with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

cover art by Mike Ludlow

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

1952 Morrow hardcover

1954 Dell reissue

13th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

cover art by Griffith Foxley

better image than previously posted

1952 Morrow hardcover

Cover art by Robert McGinnis

13th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam