Tag: private eye

September 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

September 15, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

better image than previously posted

Frederick Nebel, “Murder & Co.” (Cardigan)

Frederick C. Davis, “Carrion Cargo” (Eliot Knox)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Snatch as Snatch Can” (Paul Pry)

Ralph Oppenheim, “Brand of the Beast” (Glen Kelsey, PI)

6 x Give ‘Em the Ax


1944 Morrow hardcover

9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

1950 Dell mapback

August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

published in 1951 by Heinemann in London as An Axe to Grind. this the 1960 Australian edition by Horowitz

1958 Dell reissue

1962 Dell reissue

cover art by Harry Bennett

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Headed for a Hearse x 8

1936 Double Day hardcover

A Crime Club selection

3rd with drunken private eye Bill Crane from 1936

1950 Century paperback

  • – cover art by Duur

1956 Jonathan Press digest, #84

cover art by ED Emshwiller

1960 Great Pan reissue

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1964 McFadden paperback reissue

better image than previously posted

1990 International Polygonics – cover by Jennifer Place

2022 American Mystery Classics

1960 Signet paperback original – cover art buy Barye Phillips

1960 Signet paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

3rd with Aloysius Algernon Steele, a private eye who prefers to be called “Rocky”

West was a black physician who lived in Liberia and specialized in tropical diseases, and who wrote hardboiled pulp about a white shamus in NYC

cover art by George Geygan

George Geygan (American, 20th Century)
Dig Me A Grave by John Spain (Bantam, 1951)
Oil on canvas, 22 x 15-1/2 inches (55.9 x 39.4 cm)
Signed lower right: geygan

pseudonym of Cleve F. Adams

1942 Dutton hardcover

first book published under this pen name

1st of two with private eye Bill Rye