camera – SMB Noir

1952 Dell reissue – cover art by James Meese

1947 Knopf hardcover, this the later 1952 Dell reissue

cover art by James Meese

9th with newspaper photographer Kent Murdock

better image than previously posted

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Trot Out Your Murder” (Mr. Maddox)

Peter Paige, “The Bullet From Nowhere” (Cash Wale)

D.L. Champion, “Coffee for a Killer” (Insp. Allhoff)

Jan Dana, “Cheese it – The Corpse” (Acme Indemnity Op)

John Earl Davis, “Try This on Your Knife”

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Carroll John Daly, “A Corpse on the House” (Race Williams)

Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow” (Steve Grace, housedick) – first appearance of this story, one often reprinted

Frederick C. Davis, “Crimson Broadcast” (Keyhole Kerry)

William Edward Hayes, “Death by Enlargement”

Maxwell Hawkins, “Rx Murder”

originally published in Sept. 1941 issue of Black Mask Magazine as “Killers are Camera Shy”,

1948 Dell mapback, mapback by Ruth Belew

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cover art by Norman Saunders

cover art by Rafael DeSoto