
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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1955 Simon and Schuster hardcover, this the 1959 Dell reissue
cover art by Robert McGinnis
2nd book with NYPD Lt. Timothy Trant
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1959 Dell paperback original anthology of short stories by women crime writers, an idea initiated by MacDonald
cover painting by Ron Lesser

1962 Fontana edition from the UK
cover art by John L. Baker
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1958 Simon hardcover, this the 1959 Dell reissue
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by Harry Bennett
14th with NYC private eye Johnny Liddell
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1957 Simon and Schuster hardcover, this the 1960 softcover reprint.
Quentin was the pseudonym Hugh Wheeler
back cover says the cover art is by Robert McGuire but it doesn’t look like his work.

1953 Doubleday hardcover, this a later, 1955, reprint
also released as A Big Hand for the Corpse by the Detective Book Club in 1955
“George Bagby” was one of the pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein, who also published as Hampton Stone
cover art by Victor Kalin
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