1952 Falcon paperback original
cover art by George Gross
1954 Phantom reissue in Australia
better image than previously posted
Mistress on a Deathbed x 2
Tag: dame
1961 Midwood paperback original – cover art by Robert Maguire
February 1944 issue
1959 J reissue – cover art by Giovanni Benvenuti
1959 J reissue, #71
cover art by Giovanni Benvenuti
one of John Creasey’s many pseudonyms (he used 20 or so with his 500 plus novels)
the Ashe books featured Patrick Dawlish and this is the 21st, published by Evans in 1949
June 1949 issue
KA-POW!!!
April 1942 issue
1950 Dell mapback – cover art by Robert Stanley
cover art by Robert Stanley
1948 Rinehart hardcover, this the 1950 Dell mapback
Hamilton’s second novel, his first Matt Helm was 13 years away
evil smile on that dame’s face…
better image than previously posted
October 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Robert Martin, “Death Gives a Permanent Wave” (PI Jim Bennett)
D.L. Champion, “Slaying Room Only!”
John D. MacDonald, “Oh, Give Me a Hearse”
Charles Larson, “Covet and Kill”
Richard E. Glendinning, “Invitation to Hell”
Paula Elliot, “Murder is Too Personal“
Frank Ward, “Nightmare Alley”
May 1941 issue
[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]
better image than previously posted
Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)
Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”
D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”
O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”
June-July 1949 issue
SMB Noir 