
1961 Monarch paperback original
cover art by Robert Stanley
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1948 Dutton hardcover, this the later 1949 Bantam reissue
cover art by Robert Stanley
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his second novel
2nd in his Edgar-winning series with amateur sleuths Ed and Am Hunter
cover art repurposed for 1952 Presses de la cité edition

Recueil de 3 nouvelles : La rousse rafle tout (“Finger Man”) – La porte de bronze (“The Bronze Door”) (nouvelle fantastique)- Un crime fait de chic (“Smart-Aleck Kill”) – Complété par l’essai “Le crime est un art simple”(“The Simple Art of Murder”)

cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “What Makes Sammy Kill?”
Thorne Lee, “It’s in the Bag!”
Jimmy Nichols, “Cops Are Born”
Robert Turner, “Party to Murder!”
John D. FitzGerald, “Too Mean to Live!”
Arthur Leo Zagat,“Death-Dance of the Broken Dolls”
Talmage Powell, “Blood in Your Eye!”
Cyril Plunkett, “Deadly Is My Sleep”
Wilbur S. Peacock, “Copperhead”
Dale Clark, “Corpses, Incorporated” (Socrates Bean)
Jhan Robbins, “The Waxwork Wake”

not the same Parker who wrote the Spenser books, though this one was a Robert B (for Bogardus) Parker, too
1951 Rinehart hardcover, this the 1952 Dell softcover released the next near
cover art by Robert Stanley
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1941 Holt hardcover – cover art by Charles Lofgren
5th Michael Shayne

1944 Detective Novel Classic digest

1949 Popular Library reissue – cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley

1959 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “Two Down, Two to Die!”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Dead Who Kill Again”
Joe Kent, “Kill, Baby, Kill!”
Larry Holden, “Red Nightmare”
Robert Bloch, “A Head for His Bier!”
Talmage Powell, “To the Last Drop!”
Eric A. Provost, “Make Room for the Corpse!”

7th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

1948 Dell reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg
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1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley



1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Ron Lesser

1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

1935 Knopf hardcover, 1946 Dell map back reissue
1st novel with photographer Kent Murdock
cover art by George A. Frederiksen
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cover artist by Robert Stanley
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1949 Dodd Mead hardcover, a Red Badge Mystery

1949 Dodd Mead hardcover, this the later 1`950 Dell mapback
cover art by Robert Stanley
17th with Miami private eye Mike Shayne
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map by Ruth Belew

1957 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley

1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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1943 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition

cover art by Ben Hallam, mapback by Ruth Belew


original title: Blood on the Black Market
cover art by Robert Stanley
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cover art by Robert McGinnis

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

cover art by Robert McGinnis
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