1958 Avon reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1958 Avon paperback original

republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death, Asimov’s preferred title

1968 Walker hardcover reissue

1970 Sphere edition from the UK

House of Fury/Reform School Girls x 4

1941 Doubleday hardcover

1948 Diversey digest in Canada

1950 Avon reissue

1959 Berkley reissue

cover art by Robert Maguire

better image than previously posted

Clean Break into The Killing

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition. In publisher’s trial dust jacket, date stamped March 1, 1955, on the bottom of the front flap.

Basis for Stanley Kubrick’s breakthrough 1956 film “The Killing,” starring Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles.

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1988 Black Lizard reissue – cover art by Kirwin

1956 United Artists – written and directed by Stanley Kubrick

Roeburt x 3 + 1

1951 Graphic reissue

first published in 1946 by Mystery House as There are Dead Men in Manhattan. in addition to this 1957 title from Avon, it was published in 1951 as Manhattan Underworld (1951, Harlequin) and as Triple Cross (1962, Belmont). not known if the other editions were also ‘revised’

cover art by Robert Maguire

Avon cover art repurposed for this 1959 Digit release