2005 Minotaur hardcover, first print, author’s debut noir novel, classic in that everybody burns
2005 Minotaur hardcover
Tag: heist
two from Charles Williams
July 1960 Holt hardcover
cover art by Allan Mardon?
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March 1971 Signet paperback original, first printing
cover art by David Blossom
cover art by Lu Kimmel
November 1955 first printing
cover painting by Lu Kimmel
cover art by Harry Bennett
Pocket first printing paperback original, July 1964
5th Parker by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark
cover art by Harry Bennett
November 1944 issue ~ cover art Joseph Szokoli
cover art Joseph Szokoli, based on H.J. Ward
better image than previously posted
[post updated 4/20/24]
United Artists 1956 lobby card
“The Killing” (United Artists, 1956). Very Fine. Title Lobby Card (11″ X 14″) Film Noir.
Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook, Jr., Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Joe Sawyer, James Edwards, Timothy Carey, Joe Turkel, Jay Adler, Kola Kwariani, Tito Vuolo, Dorothy Adams, James Griffith, William ‘Billy’ Benedict, Charles Cane, Robert Williams, and Art Gilmore. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Adaptation of the heist novel Clean Break by Lionel White
Kubrick’s first movie as director
Sterling Hayden in disguise in Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956).
1965 lobby card
1965 lobby card, approximately 11″x14″
A little Christmas Eve crime
2000 Ballantine hardcover, first printing
debut novel by Phillips, surely a contemporary noir classic
Christmas Eve heist, Wichita, 1979 – what could go wrong?
Holiday Heist
1990 St. Martins hardcover, 1st print
1990 St. Martin’s mass market reissue
An ex-cop, burned out in a dead-end job, is enticed by an alluring co-worker into a plan to rob the chain of stores for which they work on Christmas Eve. Great dark comic noir.
Ho Ho Ho – – –
Die Hard, 1988
SMB Noir 