cover art by John Newton Howitt
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Carroll John Daly, “Ticket to Murder” (Clay Holt)
George Harmon Coxe, “The Flaming Shadow” (Det. Carson)
Max Brand, “Wet Money” (Dave Clovelly)
Oscar Schisgall, “Palooka Death Pawn”
Anson Hatch, “Dumb Double” (Det. Jack Farley)
Robert C. Blackmon, “The Body in the Loge”
Richard Hoadley Tingley, “Crossroads of Crime #1”
1966 Netherlands edition
translation of One Minute to Kill
1964 Gold Star paperback original
cover art by Harry Barton
1939 Knopf hardcover
cover art by Gerald Gregg
first novel featuring Maxfield Chauncey Hale
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map by Ruth Belew
1947 Knopf hardcover, this the later 1952 Dell reissue
cover art by James Meese
9th with newspaper photographer Kent Murdock
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cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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~ W.T. Ballard, “You Never Know About Women”, 1st of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1st-person narrator’, 15th of 43 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Mr. Casey Flashgun Murder”, 14th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 14th of 31 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crash and Carry”, 61th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 86th of 99 stories in BM
~ Preston Grady, “Massacre”, ‘Ned price, p.i., in South Carolina, 1st-person narrator; smuggling & Chinese villain.’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Leslie T. White, “The City of Hell”, ‘four honest cops “put the Indian sign on a city of graft”’, author’s sole appearance in BM
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