cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick C. Davis, “Blood from the Parrot” (Oke Oakley)
John Lawrence, “The Barking Body” (Cass Blue)
T.T. Flynn, “House of Dread” (Jerry Prince)
William Edward Hayes, “Murder in the Private Car” (Det. Dan Howell)
Edward S. Williams, “Call It Suicide” (Det. Haldane)
gouache on board, 28 x 20 inches (71.1 x 50.8 cm)
aka Hank Searls
1959 Pocket paperback original
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[updated 5/11/26]
cover art by Malvin Singer
~ D.L. Champion, “Padlocked Pockets”, 23rd if 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 25th of 30 stories in BM
~ Ed Edstrom, “Never Call the Cops”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “A Killer in the Crowd”, ‘1st-person; homicide lieutenant, NYPD’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Constant Shadow”, 4th of 9 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “High Voltage Homicide”, ‘Lee Bassler, ‘phone company trouble-shooter’, last of 6 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Murder’s No Libel”, last of 14 with Ken O’Hara, ‘now press agent for Hotel Diplomat’, 24th of 27 stories in BM
~ Michael Sutton, “Concerto for Guns”, ‘Johnny Dillon, LA private ‘tec, 1st person narrator‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by Charles Binger
1958 Simon & Schuster hardcover
7th in his 87th Precinct series
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1960 Gold Medal paperback original
pseudonym of Frank E. Smith
cover art by Darrell Greene
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8th in the Peter Shelby series, set in Manhattan’s Sixth Precinct
SMB Noir 