lawrence lariar – SMB Noir

Stone Cold Blonde x 4

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar

1951 Crown hardcover

1952 Signet reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare

better image than previously posted

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar

Adam Knight was a pen name of Lawrence Lariar

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar

1959 Signet paperback original

cover art by Robert Schulz

Lawrence Lariar also wrote under the names Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence and Michael Stark

first published in 1943 by Phoenix as Death Paints the Picture, reprinted by Crime Novel Selection as Death is the Host that same year

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1960 Popular Library paperback original, second of two books with Johnny Amsterdam
Michael Lawrence was one of the pseudonyms used by Lawrence Lariar

cover art attributed to Ted CoConis

Oil on board, 19.25 x 14.25 in. (sight)
Signed lower right

Murder for Madame by Adam Knight, Signet #920, 1952.

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar

[updated 6/23/25, corrected 4/3/26]