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)
9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
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
cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted
1936 Double Day hardcover
A Crime Club selection
3rd with drunken private eye Bill Crane from 1936
1956 Jonathan Press digest, #84
cover art by ED Emshwiller
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1964 McFadden paperback reissue
better image than previously posted
1990 International Polygonics – cover by Jennifer Place
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
1961 Pyramid paperback original
cover art by Robert Maguire
8th with private eye Honey West
1962 Pocket/Perma paperback original
3rd with Tampa private eye Ed Rivers
cover art by Harry Bennett
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
better image than previously posted
cover art by Fred Craft
~ John L. Chambliss, “The Contact”, NYC PI Schuyler Blake, only appearance in BM
~ Raymond Chandler, “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot”, his debut in BM, his first published writing, 1st of 2 with PI Mallory, 1st of 11 stories in BM, first book appearance in Five Murderers (Avon digest, 1944), reprinted in Red Wind (Tower hc, 1946), The Smell of Fear (Hamish Hamilton/UK hc, 1965), Midnight Raymond Chandler (Houghton Mifflin hc, 1971), The Black Mask Boys (Morrow, 1985)
~ Eugene Cunningham, “Chalk”, 2nd of 5 with undercover Texas Ranger Cleve Corby, 8th of 14 stories in BM
~ Tom Curry, “Clancy Takes the Air”, Clancy, NYPD 1st grade dick, author’s last of 39 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dead Men’s Shoes”, 53th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’ with Ngat T’oy, 77th of 99 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder Again”, ‘L.A. County dicks; Hollywood story’, 65th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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