
cover art by Emmett Watson
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous published novel. This fix-up novel used several pulp stories which was tied together and fleshed out by Robert Leslie Bellem.

1951 Signet, first paperback reissue
cover art by Carl Bobertz
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March 11, 1939 issue – cover art by Emmett Watson



July 1952 Signet reissue, 3rd printing
cover art by Maurice Thomas – better image than previously posted

cover art by Robert Schulz
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December 1940 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Carroll John Daly, “The Strange Case of Iva Grey” (Connelly)
Cleve F. Adams, “Murder While You Wait” (Conner O’Melveny)
John Lawrence, “Nothing for Christmas” (Marquis of Broadway)
Merle Costiner, “You’re in My Way (The Dean)
Fletcher D. Slater, “Red Light” (Eddie West)

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Norbert Davis, “Watch Me Kill You!” (Max Latin)
James A. Kirch, “The Murder Master”
John K. Butler, “Dead Man’s Alibi” (Steve Midnight)
Cleve F. Adams, “Forty Pains” (O’Melveny and Dugan)
O.B. Myers, “The Wild Man of Wall Street”
