1957 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by John Floherty Jr

1957 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by John Floherty Jr.

7th novel and 7th with NYC private eye Ed Noon

better image than previously posted

May 1949 issue

May 1949 issue

cover art attributed to both Norman Saunders and Peter Stevens

~ Ed Barcelo, “Suicidal Slay Ride”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace”, ‘1st-person narrator in barber’s chair, reprinted, The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ John P. Foran, “Copper, Come Back to Me”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Murder in One Syllable”, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 4th of 6 stories in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Death’s Glass Slipper”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 4th of 8 stories in BM

~ Marian O’Hearn, “Diary of a Deadly Dame”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Fergus Truslow, “Pardon My Poison Platters”, ‘the record business’, last of 6 stories in BM

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