Tag: femme fatale

Build My Gallows High/Out of the Past

1946 William Morrow, first edition.

Geoffrey Homes, Build My Gallows High, 1946 Morrow hardcover

1956 Ace Double paperback reissue

cover art by Harry Barton

basis for the 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past

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[post updated 7/3/25]

1953 Gold Medal paperback original ~ cover art by Barye Phillips

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

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his third book, later reprinted as The Hot Spot, made into a movie directed by Dennis Hopper in 1990, staring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly and Virginia Madsen

May 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

May 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Oscar Schisgall, “Gambling Man” (Danny Fenton)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Curse” (Needle Mike)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Dead Sees Red”

William Edward Hayes, “Hot Shot to Hell” (Dan Howell)

O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Watch (Tuttle and Tommy Merkle)

introducing Peter Chambers x 7

1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover

Kane’s debut novel and debut of Chambers

1948 Dell mapback

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1950 Boardman hardcover from Britain – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

Kane’s first with private eye (Kane preferred “private Richard”) Peter Chambers, a 1947 Simon & Schuster hardcover. The title was changed for the revised 1956 Avon softcover.

cover art by Ray Johnson

1955 Boardman paperback – Denis McLoughlin cover art

1960 Avon reissue – cover art by Ray Johnson

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1961 Dutch edition