
cover art by Howell Dodd?


1957 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by John Floherty Jr.
7th novel and 7th with NYC private eye Ed Noon

cover art by Edgar A. Whitney
better image than previously posted
~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Renegade in Rio”, 4th of 7 Beeker stories, ‘see p. 31 for note on “Beek”’, 18th of 21 stories in BM
~ William E. Brandon, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, ‘actually has sympathetic black character’, 2nd of 7 stories in BM
~ Kenneth A. Fowler, “Escape”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Take It or Leave It”, ‘3rd and last Pete Wennick story’, 93rd of 100 appearances in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “The Sad Serbian”, ‘small-time con man in Chi.’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 11th of 14 stories in BM
~ Elmer E. Meadows, “Alias Mr. Fate”, ‘Jewish boy in NYC’s ghetto’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “You Gotta Live Right”, ‘Arizona’, 11th of 27 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop


cover art attributed to both Norman Saunders and Peter Stevens
~ Ed Barcelo, “Suicidal Slay Ride”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace”, ‘1st-person narrator in barber’s chair, reprinted, The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ John P. Foran, “Copper, Come Back to Me”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Murder in One Syllable”, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 4th of 6 stories in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Death’s Glass Slipper”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 4th of 8 stories in BM
~ Marian O’Hearn, “Diary of a Deadly Dame”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Pardon My Poison Platters”, ‘the record business’, last of 6 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[updated 3/1/26]

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
T.T. Flynn, “A Horse of Another Killer, (Mr. Maddox)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Fingers of Ice” (Colonel Kaspir)
Norbert Davis, “Too Many Have Died” (Peter Tracy)
William Brandon, “Quiet Street”
Mark Lish, “Ashes in the Valley”
