
1939 Knopf hardcover
cover art by Gerald Gregg
first novel featuring Maxfield Chauncey Hale
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map by Ruth Belew


1939 Knopf hardcover
cover art by Gerald Gregg
first novel featuring Maxfield Chauncey Hale
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map by Ruth Belew


1938 Putnam hardcover movie tie-in

debut mystery and first with The Great Merlini, magician and sleuth
cover art by Gerald Gregg

2018 American Mystery Classics edition


1946 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg/map by Ruth Belew


1949 Dell reissue – cover art by William Jacobson

1955 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley
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1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis


1964 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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pseudonym of Dorothy Stockbridge Tillet, born in 1896
his is his (her) 2nd book with Lt. George Honegger
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9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam



August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

published in 1951 by Heinemann in London as An Axe to Grind. this the 1960 Australian edition by Horowitz


cover art by Harry Bennett
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cover art by Penrhyn Stanlaws
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Dashiell Hammett, “Too Many Have Lived”, a Sam Spade short story – first appearance – illustrated by J. M. Clement
reprinted in 1945 in the Dell mapback A Man Called Spade

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“A Man Called Spade”
“They Can Only Hang You Once”
“Too Many Have Lived”
“The Assistant Murderer”
“His Brother’s Keeper”

4th book released in this long-running series. first published as a hardcover by Holt in 1940

cover art by William Strohmer
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cover art by Robert Stanley



cover art by Robert McGinnis
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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…
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