cover art by H.J. Ward
[cover updated 11/18/25]
Tag: femme fatale
August 1929 issue ~ cover art by R.C. Wardell
cover art by R.C. Wardell
better image than previously posted
Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”
December 1954 issue
1965 Signet edition ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis
Holiday Heist
1990 St. Martins hardcover, 1st print
1990 St. Martin’s mass market reissue
An ex-cop, burned out in a dead-end job, is enticed by an alluring co-worker into a plan to rob the chain of stores for which they work on Christmas Eve. Great dark comic noir.
November 1936 issue
1965 Horwitz
1952 Bloodhound reissue ~ cover art by Dennis McLoughlin
1951 Lippencott hardcover
1952 UK Bloodhound paperback reissue
cover art by Dennis McLoughlin
4th with Peter Chambers, private eye (Kane disliked the term ‘private dick’ , preferring ‘private richard’)
July 1949 issue
1959 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
August 1959 Dell reissue, first printing
completed by Ed McBain after Rice’s death
cover painting by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted
SMB Noir 