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1962 Signet paperback original – cover art by Robert McGinniks

cover art by Robert McGinnis

first published in Australia by Horowitz, 1962, then in the US by Signet, a paperback original

cover art repurposed for 1967 Signet by James Dark

James Hadley Chase – I Would Rather Stay Poor (“Hän ei saa kuolla”)

Manhattan paperback #81

pseudonym of E. Howard Hunt, CIA spook, Nixon bag-man, Watergate op and spy novelist

1957 Dell paperback original with DC accountant Steve Bentley – this the first in that series.

cover art by Robert McGinnis

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Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum, Out of the Past, 1947

originally published in 1955 by Dodd as The Beckoning Dream

cover art by Arthur Sussman

better image than previously posted

cover art by Richard Cardiff

1949 Simon & Schuster hardcover, his third with private eye Peter Chambers. Kane preferred “private richard” to “private dick”

cover art by Victor Kalin

better image than previously posted

pseudonym of Robert (Lee) Martin
1959 Dodd Mead hardcover, this the later 1960 Crest reissue

cover art by Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted

cover art by Ray Johnson

better image then previously posted