
Tag: bound
May 1960 issue ~ cover art by Carl Pfeuffer
September 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

cover art by William Reusswig
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder & Co.” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “Carrion Cargo” (Eliot Knox)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Snatch as Snatch Can” (Paul Pry)
Ralph Oppenheim, “Brand of the Beast” (Glen Kelsey, PI)

cover art by H.J. Ward
1964 Popular Library reissue
Clean Break into The Killing

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition. In publisher’s trial dust jacket, date stamped March 1, 1955, on the bottom of the front flap.
Basis for Stanley Kubrick’s breakthrough 1956 film “The Killing,” starring Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles.

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1988 Black Lizard reissue – cover art by Kirwin

1956 United Artists – written and directed by Stanley Kubrick
June 1940 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Scott
July 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

cover art by Malvin Singer
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John K. Butler, “A Coffin for Two” (Rex Lonergan)
Leslie T. White, “Don’t Change Dames in the Middle of Murder”
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Card” (Needle Mike)
O.B. Myers, “You Can’t Trust a Corpse”
Maxwell Hawkins, “Forty Pounds of Flesh”
Norbert Davis, “Death Sings a Torch-Song” (Dennis Lee)
B.B. Fowler, “Avenging Angel”
Madelyn Ralph, “The Ghost in the Bottle”

July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”
Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”
Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”
Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”
Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”
Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”
Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)








