femme fatale – Page 19

July 1951 issue

cover painting by Robert McGinnis

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watercolor and gouache on board, 25 x 16-1/2 inches

[original art updated 9/14/26]

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

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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pseudonym of Frank E. Smith

cover art by William Rose

non-series noir thriller

a syndicate killer has a contract to take out this 15-year-old who has played the risky game of blackmailing mobsters.

cover art by Barye Phillips

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Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum, Out of the Past, 1947

originally published in 1955 by Dodd as The Beckoning Dream

cover art by Arthur Sussman

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1949 Simon & Schuster hardcover, his third with private eye Peter Chambers. Kane preferred “private richard” to “private dick”

cover art by Victor Kalin

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better image than previously posted

[post updated 10/24/26]