

cover art by Howell Dodd (who typically didn’t sign his work) or George Gross (who did)?


cover art by Fred Craft
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~Tom Curry, “The House of Jewels”, 8th of 39 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forget ‘Em All”, 9th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 16th of 99 stories in BM
~ Cecil F. Hilleary, “The Lost Bullet”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick Jackson, “Risky Whiskey”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Black Burton Sits In”, 2nd of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 2nd of 39 stories in BM
~ Colin Martins, “Ho-o-o-o for Tango!”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Ralph E. Renaud, “Telling the Cock-eyed World”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Henry S. Whitehead, “Gahd Laff”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Jenny Meets the Boys”, ‘border air-story’, 3rd of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

1941 Morrow hardcover
4th in the Bertha Cool & Donald Lam series

cover art by George A. Frederiksen/ mapback by Ruth Belew


1951 British Pocket paperback edition
cover art by Roland Davies

1959 Panther edition from Britain – cover art by Ley Kenton

1952. Dell reissue – cover art by Carl Bobertz

1957 Dell reissue – cover illustration by by Push-Pin Studios

April 1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Hayseed Homicide”
Dale Clark, “Tag! You’re Dead” (Plates O’Rion)
D.L. Champion, “Go Home and Die! (Insp. Allhoff)
Cornell Woolrich, “What the Well-Dressed Corpse Will Wear”
Julius Long, “Accidents Will Happen”

April 1964 Belmont paperback original
13th with Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg
cover art by Victor Kalin
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cover art by Gerald Gregg, mapback by Ruth Belew


cover art by Walter Brooks
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1949 Simon and Schuster hardcover
cover art by Barye Phillips
2nd book with lawyer/detective Scott Jordan
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