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1944 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition
author’s first novel, Lew Archer was a few years away

1950 Lion reissue – cover art by E. Walter

1955 Lion reissue with different title
cover art by Clark Hulings



1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh


cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”
Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”
Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”
Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”
Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”
Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”
Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)


1959 J reissue, #71
cover art by Giovanni Benvenuti
one of John Creasey’s many pseudonyms (he used 20 or so with his 500 plus novels)
the Ashe books featured Patrick Dawlish and this is the 21st, published by Evans in 1949