
1948 Martin & Reid Publishings paperback
written by Mick Anglo
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published in 1949 by Rinehart as The Leather Duke
10th with sleuths Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg
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1943 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition

cover art by Ben Hallam, mapback by Ruth Belew


original title: Blood on the Black Market
cover art by Robert Stanley
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cover art by Robert McGinnis

above art repurposed from 1958 Dell edition of Frank Kane’s Syndicate Girl

cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by Fred Scotwood
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1941 Morrow hardcover, his 5th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

1958 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Gerald Powell
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“Curt Cannon” was a pseudonym of Ed McBain
this, a paperback original grouping of short stories


cover art by Rafael DeSoto, oil on board, 26 x 18.5 in.
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H.H. Stinson, “A Window in My Coffin” (PI Kerry Monahan)
Peter Paige, “Death – On the House”
John D. MacDonald, “Suicidal Journey”
Ken Kessler, “Operation Murder”
Seymour Irving Richin, “Violence for Vicky”
Stanley C. Vickers, “Noose of Retribution”
Edward William Murphy, “Killings on the Conscience”


1946 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg/map by Ruth Belew


1949 Dell reissue – cover art by William Jacobson

1955 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley
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1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis


1964 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by Tom Lovell
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Carroll John Daly, “Monogram in Lead” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “A Date at the Morgue”
John K. Butler, “The Walking Dead” (Rex Lonergan)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Man Who Was Two” (Kip Lacey)
John Lawrence, “Broadway Malady” (Marquis of Broadway)
a letter from JKB appeared on pgs. 123-124
