
1932 Stokes hardcover
cover art on this later Pocket reissue by Harry Bennett
5th in the series

1932 Stokes hardcover
cover art on this later Pocket reissue by Harry Bennett
5th in the series

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

1961 Perma Books paperback original
2nd with Lt. Shomri Shomar
cover art by Harry Bennett

pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, who also wrote as Stewart Sterling
1960 Doubleday hardcover, this the later 1961 Pocket paperback
cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted


1956 Dell reissue
cover art by Victor Kalin

cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted

9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam



August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

published in 1951 by Heinemann in London as An Axe to Grind. this the 1960 Australian edition by Horowitz


cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted

1962 Pocket/Perma paperback original
3rd with Tampa private eye Ed Rivers
cover art by Harry Bennett

1962 Perma Books paperback original
cover art by Harry Bennett
his 4th of 5 with Tampa private eye Ed Rivers
better image than previously posted

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


cover art by Harry Bennett
14th with NYC private eye Johnny Liddell
better image than previously posted