evan hunter – SMB Noir

1953 Popular Library paperback original – cover art by Walter Popp

cover art by Walter Popp

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his third novel, three years before first publishing under the name Ed McBain

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14th in his long-running 87th Precinct series

1961 Simon & Schuster hardcover

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cover art by Robert McGinnis

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

below is variant cover of unknown release or origin

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

cover art by Tom O’Sullivan

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cover art by Willard Downes

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October 1957 Perma Book paperback original, first printing

cover painting by James Meese

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pen name of Evan Hunter AKA Ed McBain

cover art by Willard Downes?

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