
1953 Rinehart hardcover – 1954 Signet reissue
cover art by Robert Maguire
also published as Such Women are Dangerous in the UK, Boardman, 1954
better image than previously posted

1953 Rinehart hardcover – 1954 Signet reissue
cover art by Robert Maguire
also published as Such Women are Dangerous in the UK, Boardman, 1954
better image than previously posted

Paul Rader (American, 1906-1986), not signed
Girl Running , Signet 1956
oil on canvas board, 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm)

Adam Knight was a pen name of Lawrence Lariar

Robert Maguire (American, 1921-2005)
The Flesh Was Cold paperback cover, 1957 Signet reissue
oil on Masonite, 24 x 16 inches (61.0 x 40.6 cm), not signed


1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover


1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas


1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper



Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH


George Ziel (American, 1914-1982)
A Kiss Before Dying, 1954 Signet reissue
oil on board, 25-1/4 x 20 inches (64.1 x 50.8 cm), not signed
Edgar award for Best Novel, 1954


Frank McCarthy (American, 1924-2002)
The Manchurian Candidate paperback cover, 1962 Signet reissue
Gouache on board, 22-7/8 x 13 inches (58.1 x 33.0 cm) (image)



1960 Horwitz paperback original in Australia

1960 Signet paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips


Robert McGinnis (American, 1926-2025), Not signed
The Wayward Wahine, Carter Brown, 1966 Signet reissue
Gouache on board, 19-1/4 x 15 inches (48.9 x 38.1 cm)



1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English
3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani


Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed
– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –


1957 Phantom edition from Australia



1952 Hale hardcover in the UK

1953 Dutton hardcover, a Guilt Edged Selection

Oil on board, 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Al Rossi
The present work is published as the cover of The Double Shuffle by James Hadley Chase (Signet, 1954)



1963 Horwitz reissue from Australia