
cover art by John Pollack
better image than previously posted

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
D.L. Champion, “Mexican Slayride” (Mariano Mercado)
Dale Clark, “False Colors” (Plates O’Rion)
Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Four Skeletons” (The Dean)
Mel Watt, “Killer Come Back to Me” (Sam Coad)
Bruno Fischer, “I’ll Slay You in My Dreams”
Ken Lewis, “Parlor, Bedroom and Death”


aka Erle Stanley Gardner
1949 Morrow hardcover, 12th in the series with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
cover art by Mike Ludlow

another source dates this as #6, 195?, but the stories are from the June 1953 US edition. would need the title page of the UK copy to know the date. same cover art for both.