Heads You Lose x 5

1943 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition

1944 Dell reissue

cover art by Ben Hallam, mapback by Ruth Belew

1958 Dell reissue

original title: Blood on the Black Market

cover art by Robert Stanley

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cover art by Robert McGinnis

1964 Mayflower Dell reissue

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

1965 Dell reissue

cover art by Robert McGinnis

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1958 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Gerald Powell

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

June 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1947 issue

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”

Michael Shayne’s Long Chance x 5 – – +!

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 reissuecover art by Robert McGinnis

1964 Dell reissuecover art by Robert McGinnis

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February 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

February 1937 issue

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