
1956 Edgar Mystery Writers of America Award for Best Novel of the year

cover art by Mitchell Hooks


1956 Edgar Mystery Writers of America Award for Best Novel of the year

cover art by Mitchell Hooks


cover art by H.J. Hanschel (?)


map by Ruth Belew


1987 International Polygonics reissue
cover art by Roger Roth

edited by Sarah Weinman, an historical survey of the “Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense”.
authors include Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Helen Neilsen, Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar and Vera Caspary.


[last cover updated 4/13/25]

January 1960 Bantam reissue, first printing, first paperback edition
from the July 1957 Random House hardcover
also published as The Soft Talkers