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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

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”


cover art by Norman Saunders
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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)
