another source dates this as #6, 195?, but the stories are from the June 1953 US edition. would need the title page of the UK copy to know the date. same cover art for both.
June 1943 UK edition
Tag: ed mcbain
May 1952 issue
1963 Boardman hardcover
1960 Simon & Schuster US hardcover, 1963 Boardman UK hardcover
cover art by Denis McLoughlin
13th in his landmark procedural series
1959 Cardinal reissue ~ cover art by Barye Phillips
Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain
first published in 1958 by Simon & Schuster, one of his ‘straight’ straight, not a crime novel
cover art by Barye Phillips
adapted into a 1960 movie with Kim Novak and Kirk Douglas
September 1956 issue ~ cover art by Tom O’Sullivan
March 1953 issue ~ cover art by Willard Downes
1963 Permabook reissue ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis
1962 Simon & Schuster hardcover
cover art by Robert McGinnis
16th in this long-running series
October 1957 Perma Book paperback original
October 1957 Perma Book paperback original, first printing
cover painting by James Meese
better image than previously posted
pen name of Evan Hunter AKA Ed McBain
