
cover art by Henry Fox


1937 collection of short stories first published in hardcover by Collins
1962 Great Pan reissue
cover art by Harry Sheldon

41st Perry Mason novel

cover photo of Ellen Burstyn by Silver Studios

1961 Great Pan edition from the UK – cover art by Sam Peffer

November 1962 Pocket reissue, 5th printing
cover art Robert McGinnis
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1936 Double Day hardcover
A Crime Club selection
3rd with drunken private eye Bill Crane from 1936


1956 Jonathan Press digest, #84
cover art by ED Emshwiller

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1964 McFadden paperback reissue
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1990 International Polygonics – cover by Jennifer Place


1937 Collins UK hardcover, 1938 US hardcover from Coward McCann
3rd with his tough-guy G-Man Lemmy Caution
cover art by Sam Peffer

“Patrick Quentin” was the pseudonym of Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb
published in the US in 1952 as Black Widow, a Simon & Schuster hardcover. published the following year in the UK by Gollancz with this different title. 8th with Broadway producer Peter Duluth.
cover art by Sam Peffer?

1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English
one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers
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cover art by Clark Hulings

cover art by Sam Peffer


May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print
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1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print



2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
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