
1961 Popular Library paperback original
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted

1961 Popular Library paperback original
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted

1950 Avon Monthly Novel digest original – first appearance
cover art by Mike Doyle

1951 Avon paperback – first mass market
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

cover art by John Vernon
better image than previously posted

1963 Corgi UK paperback original
cover art by Renato Fratini


1969 Signet edition – 1st US edition
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by Terry Gilbert

Walter Mosley’s debut, Devil in a Blue Dress
first in the long-running Easy Rawlins series set in Los Angeles
1990 Norton hardcover
cover illustration by John Jinks

1960 Pyramid paperback original
cover art by Harry Schaare
private eye short story anthology
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first published in 1946 by Mystery House as There are Dead Men in Manhattan. in addition to this 1957 title from Avon, it was published in 1951 as Manhattan Underworld (1951, Harlequin) and as Triple Cross (1962, Belmont). not known if the other editions were also ‘revised’

cover art by Robert Maguire
Avon cover art repurposed for this 1959 Digit release
