
cover art by Richard Lillis
better image than previously posted

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition. In publisher’s trial dust jacket, date stamped March 1, 1955, on the bottom of the front flap.
Basis for Stanley Kubrick’s breakthrough 1956 film “The Killing,” starring Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles.

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1988 Black Lizard reissue – cover art by Kirwin

1956 United Artists – written and directed by Stanley Kubrick

film adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s 2004 novel, The Prince of the City, a very good movie made from a great novel

1956, The Killing – Kubrick’s second movie
adapted from Lionel White’s Clean Break, Dutton hardcover, 1955

cover art by Charles Copeland
Criss-Cross, 1934 Vanguard hardcover, basis for the 1949 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner