
cover art by George Gross

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
better image than previously posted, cover credit corrected
T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)
Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)
John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)
O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)
Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”

1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover


1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas


1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper



Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH
