
cover art by H. Wesso
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1940 Doubleday, Doran and Co. for the Crime Club. First Edition stated. Calman dustjacket art. Uncommon murder mystery, the author’s first.

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1943 Canadian edition
Reprints stories from the March 1943 U.S. edition.


1952 Rinehart hardcover, this the later 1953 Dell paperback
cover art by Robert Hilbert
his first published novel
first with series detective Manville “Manny” Moon who operated with one artificial leg

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

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”