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first issue with this slightly altered title (from “Famous Detective”)
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1945 Rinehart hardcover

1948 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas

1959 Signet reissue with slight title change
cover art by Jerry Allison



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cover art by Victor Kalin

two reissue editions from Stark House Press


cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)
John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)
D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)
this is the first issue with 144 pages