
1956 Pyramid paperback original
better image than previously posted


1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English
3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani


Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed
– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –


1957 Phantom edition from Australia



1952 Gold Medal paperback original

reissues normally do not use a different version from the same photo shoot

1954 Phantom edition from Australia


1952 Falcon paperback original
cover art by Rudy Nappi

1953 Australian edition from Phantom

1956 Crest reissue – cover art by James Meese

cover art by Charles Binger?
his 8th book
better image than previously posted

1972 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Larry Kresek

pseudonym of E(dgar) Hoffman Price
1952 Falcon paperback original
cover art by Howell Dodd
1954 Phantom reissue from Australia with “copied” cover art


1953 Gold Medal paperback original
also published by Berkley as One for My Money in 1962 and a French film in 1990, It’s Freezing in Hell
cover art by Charles Copeland




2013 Black Curtain Press reissue


1952 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
first of two uses of this joint pen name of Davis Dresser (aka Brett Halliday) and Walter Ryerson Johnson

1952 Phantom paperback original from Australia

1950 Handi-Book digest original
cover art by George Gross



cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

1963 Beacon paperback original with updated artwork

1952 Falcon paperback original
cover art by George Gross
1954 Phantom reissue in Australia
better image than previously posted
