

1960 Signet paperback original in the US
cover art by Barye Phillips


cover art by Ron Lesser

published in 1949 by Rinehart as The Leather Duke
10th with sleuths Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg
better image than previously posted

1963 Horowitz paperback original release in Australia
1964 Signet paperback original in the US – cover art by Robert McGinnis


Signet Books (September, 1950), first publication with this title
1944 Jefferson House hardcover, Hue and Cry
1951 published in the UK by Dakers as The Murder of Marion Mason
the author’s debut novel
1st in his series with Singer Batts, Shakespearean scholar, hotel owner and armchair detective assisted by his hotel manager Joe Spinder
better image than previously posted

1943 Reynal hardcover

1944 Handi-Book digest

1950 Signet paperback reissue, retitled Murder All Over
cover art by Ray Johnson
3rd book with private eye Rex McBride

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar
1959 Signet paperback original
cover art by Robert Schulz

originally published in English as The Stain on the Snow in 1953 by Rutledge. The 1948 French title was La Neige Etait Sale. Also listed as Dirty Snow
not an Inspector Maigret novel

1960 Signet paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
3rd with Aloysius Algernon Steele, a private eye who prefers to be called “Rocky”
West was a black physician who lived in Liberia and specialized in tropical diseases, and who wrote hardboiled pulp about a white shamus in NYC