Brass Cupcake x 3

John D. MacDonald’s first novel

1950 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

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1960 Gold Medal reissue

cover art by Barye Phillips

1974 UK hardcover from Robert Hale

Kiss Her Goodbye x 2

1956 Lion paperback original

pseudonym of Bill Miller and Robert Wade. they also wrote as Will Daemer, Dale Wilmer and White Masterson

cover art by Charles Copeland

1962 Signet reissue

cover art by Jerry Allison

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1962 Signet paperback original – cover art by Robert McGinniks

cover art by Robert McGinnis

first published in Australia by Horowitz, 1962, then in the US by Signet, a paperback original

cover art repurposed for 1967 Signet by James Dark

1957 Dell paperback – cover art by Robert McGinnis

pseudonym of E. Howard Hunt, CIA spook, Nixon bag-man, Watergate op and spy novelist

1957 Dell paperback original with DC accountant Steve Bentley – this the first in that series.

cover art by Robert McGinnis

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