george bagby – SMB Noir

October 1957 issue ~ cover art by Oliver Brabbins

cover art by Oliver Brabbins

1959 Doubleday hardcover

cover art by Harry Bennett

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK, below the UK softcover

pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein

30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad

pen name of Aaron Marc Stein

1946 Doubleday hardcover

1954 Bantam reissue

cover art by George Gross

better image than previously posted

1953 Doubleday hardcover, this a later, 1955, reprint

also released as A Big Hand for the Corpse by the Detective Book Club in 1955

“George Bagby” was one of the pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein, who also published as Hampton Stone

cover art by Victor Kalin

better image than previously posted