pearl necklace – Page 4

Red-Headed Sinners x 2

pen name of Milton K. Ozaki

cover art by Walter Popp

better image than previously posted

1956 Phantom paperback original from Australia

a number of changes to the cover:

– plant to phone in bottom left corner

— her hair is smoother

–yellow dress to red

–bracelet changed

–jewelry box different color

–background changed to window

–background table different, books different, bookend gone

–front table different

— mantle and logs different

–colors brighter and smoother

cover art by Lawrence Herndon

cover by William Reusswig

better image than previously posted

cover art by H.J. Ward

better image than previously posted

later repainted and used for the March 1939 Spicy Detective

2008 Academy of Chicago Press reissue of the 2nd Charlie Chan novel, first published in 1926. Second of the six Chan mysteries.

neo-pulp cover by Chris Rahn

better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted

[images updated 3/18/26]