1943 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition
cover art by Ben Hallam, mapback by Ruth Belew
original title: Blood on the Black Market
cover art by Robert Stanley
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cover art by Robert McGinnis
above art repurposed from 1958 Dell edition of Frank Kane’s Syndicate Girl
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by Stanley Borack
About a guy named Brad Dolan, whose scars run deep. He thought he’d worn out his conscience as Guadalcanal, Bastogne, the Inchon Reservoir — and in a New York apartment, where a restless model forgot she was his wife. Now he’s drifting deep in back-country Florida, the part you never see on the travel posters. Down here everything belongs to a man named Ringo — the jukes, the sheriff, the hustlers. Now Ringo wants to own Dolan
Dolan comes high.
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1959 from the Detective Book Club, this the 1960 Pocket paperback reissue
cover art by Robert Abbett
1948, Key Largo, directed by John Huston
starring Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor, and Lionel Barrymore
1995 Pantheon hardcover, first printing
a sweaty, sexy noir novel, a modern classic by an author who deserves to be far more widely read.
when she came to the shop to sign the book, she wore a custom-made leather outfit of the same colors and design as the book’s jacket.
jacket design by Marjorie Anderson
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cover art by Norman Saunders
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~ John D. MacDonald, “Heritage of Hate”, 5th of 6 stories in BM
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~ Talmage Powell, “Her Dagger Before Me”, ‘Tampa (Florida) p.i. Lloyd’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), author’s only appearance in BM
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