
cover art by Milton Luros
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1952 Rinehart hardcover, this the later 1953 Dell paperback
cover art by Robert Hilbert
his first published novel
first with series detective Manville “Manny” Moon who operated with one artificial leg

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

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~ Millard H. Cannon, “For Customers Only”, short-short, only appearance in BM
~ Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Horses Don’t Count”, last of 6 appearances in BM
~ Richard Deming, “Pay Up or Die”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st person narrator, last of 6 stories, author’s last appearance in BM
~ Charles Larson, “Eye for an Eye”, reprint, not from BM
~ Hank Napheys, “Homicide Furlough”, ‘reprint, not from BM’
~ Robert H. Rohde, “Millions of Cops”, ‘reprint, not from BM’
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder in the Ring”, ‘boxing, gamblers, racketeers, with Primo-Carnera-like boxer; reprinted from Dec ’30 issue
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

1961 Belmont paperback original
cover art by Paul Rader
1st in his series with Matt Rudd, vice detective in a corrupt and violent Southern California city
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