
cover art by Fred Rodewald
better image than previously posted

republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death, Asimov’s preferred title


1970 Sphere edition from the UK

1949 Dell paperback original – cover art by Carl Mueller

All True Fact Crime October 1950 and Detective Yearbook 1954


artwork repurposed for 1959 The Private Life Of A Strip-Tease Girl



pseudonym of Thomas Charles Packham Webb
1951 Archer paperback original, his 2nd of 3 paperbacks
cover art by Reginald Heade