7th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
1948 Dell reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg
better image than previously posed
1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley
1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Ron Lesser
1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett
watercolor or gouache?
1962 Lancer paperback original
pen name of E. Howard Hunt
better image than previously posted
cover art by Ray Johnson
private eye Peter Chambers
cover art by Ron Lesser
1959 Dell paperback original anthology of short stories by women crime writers, an idea initiated by MacDonald
cover painting by Ron Lesser
1962 Fontana edition from the UK
cover art by John L. Baker
better image than previously posted
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1960 Horowitz hardcover, this the US Signet release that same year.
cover painting by Barye Phillips
cover art by Ron Lesser
Original paperback art by Ron Lesser. The model was Lesser’s wife, Claudia.
1946 Chartered digest paperback original
better image than previously posted
1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine
“Black” (May 1932)
“Red 71” (December 1932)
“Parlor Trick” (July 1932)
“One, Two, Three” (May 1933)
“Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine
“Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)
“Pineapple” (March 1936)
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue
cover art by Joe Servello
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
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