cocktail – SMB Noir

1961 Ace paperback original

cover art by Jack Smith

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cover art by Ray Johnson

private eye Peter Chambers

cover art by Ron Lesser

cover art by Gerald Gregg

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1939 Knopf hardcover

cover art by Gerald Gregg

first novel featuring Maxfield Chauncey Hale

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map by Ruth Belew

cover art by Robert McGinnis

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cover art by Robert McGinnis

cover art by Samuel Cherry

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1949 Simon & Schuster hardcover, his third with private eye Peter Chambers. Kane preferred “private richard” to “private dick”

cover art by Victor Kalin

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