
cover art attributed to Albert Drake
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cover art by Victor Kalin
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cover art by Dick Shelton
[updated 9/22/25]

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

1958 Gold Medal reissue – cover art attributed to James Meese


1960 Digit UK paperback – not the MacDonald but same art


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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill” (Cash Wale)
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die, Maestro, Die!”
Carroll John Daly, “Half a Corpse” (Race Williams)
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Robert Carlton, “Sealed with a Kiss” (Mike Brent)
John D. MacDonald, “You’ll Never Escape”

later UK edition, includes five pieces from US May 1949 edition
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill”
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die Maestro, Die!”
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Ted Palmer, “The June Thrill Docket”
stories by Daly, Carlton and MacDonald omitted

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox’s Murder Parlay” (Mr. Maddox)
Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Slaughter in a Sarong” (Shamus Larkin)
John D. MacDonald, “I’ll Drown You in My Dreams”
Robert Martin, “Just a Corpse at Twilight”
Shane Darcy, “Dames Like Killing Too”
Harry Mason, “Death for Dessert”
