cover art by Robert McGinnis
Tag: femme fatale
Hardest of the Hardboiled #2 x 7
1933 Doubleday Doran advance reading copy
1948 Avon reprint, 1st paperback edition
cover art by Ann Cantor
Fast One was Cain’s sole novel
Chandler termed it the “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner”
cover art by Victor Olsen
1978 Southern Illinois University Press
an entry in their “Lost American Fiction” series
1980 Popular Library 1st print reissue
cover art by Jin Campbell
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[updated 6/26/25]
March 1963 Gold Medal paperback original
March 1963 Gold Medal paperback original, second printing
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted
1960 Crest paperback
October 1957 Perma Book paperback original
October 1957 Perma Book paperback original, first printing
cover painting by James Meese
better image than previously posted
pen name of Evan Hunter AKA Ed McBain
March 1935 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Fight Against Crime #12 Trimmed (Story Comics, 1953)
cover art by Reginald Heade
April 1940 issue ~ cover art by Albert Fisher
1950 Avon paperback original
1950 Avon paperback original. six stories that first appeared in Black Mask Magazine
“The Red Hots” (December 1930)
“Get a Load of This” (February 1931)
“Spare the Rod” (August 1931)
“Pearls are Tears” (September 1931)
“Death’s Not Enough” (October 1931)
“Save Your Tears” (June 1933)
SMB Noir 