1st in the long-running series with CIA agent Sam Durell
1955 Gold Medal paperback original
1965 Gold Medal reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
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1969 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Elaine Duillo
undated Fawcett reissue – 70s?
Saturday Evening Post serialization: Sep 11, Sep 18, Sep 25, Oct 2, Oct 9, Oct 16, Oct 23, Oct 30 1954. – illustration by James Bingham
1957 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
1961 Thriller Book Club hardcover
1963 Pan reissue – cover art by Michel
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1981 Mayflower edition from the UK
1949 Hamish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first by three months – cover art by C.W. Bacon
1949 Houghton Mifflin hc, 1st edition – cover art by Boris Artzybasheff (owner’s copy)
1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by James Neil Boyle
1950 Pocket reissue – cover art by William Shoyer (owner’s copy)
1957 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Ballantine reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Colin Thomas
1988 Vintage/ Black Lizard reissue
1960 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Charles Binger
pseudonym of Robert Lee Martin
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1960 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Charles Binger
11th with Chester Drum, private eye
originally published as Duo: The Girl with a Secret and Incident at a Corner, 1959 hardcover by Coward McCann, this the later 1960 Crest paperback of just one of the novellas
cover art by Charles Binger
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September 1948 issue ~ debut of the story
cover art by Earle Bergey
1949 Dutton hardcover – first book appearance
1950 Bantam reissue – cover art by Herman Bischoff
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1951 Boardman hardcover from Britain – cover art by Dennis McLoughlin
1954 Bantam reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
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1954 Boardman paperback reissue – cover art by Pagram
1978 Bantam reissue – cover art by Paul Lehr
1978 Pennyfarthing Press hardcover, limited edition reissue
cover art by Grant Canfield
2nd book with Gramps Wiggins
cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff
1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
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1963 Horwitz edition from Australia
1963 British edition from Penguin
cover art by Sheila Perry
1948 Dutton hardcover
his second book, also second with Ed and Am Hunter
cover art for this 1954 Bantam paperback by Charles Binger
better image than previously posted
[artist credit corrected 6/30/26]
