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
1956 Signet edition
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1960 Signet paperback original – cover art buy Barye Phillips
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
1958 Signet reissue – cover art by Barye Phillips
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
Kiss Me Deadly x 3
Model Carol Siebeck posing for Kiss Me, Deadly, 1960 Signet 1758 20th printing. Cover art by James Avati.
Me, Hood! x 4
1963 Corgi UK paperback original
cover art by Renato Fratini
1969 Signet edition – 1st US edition
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted
cover art by Terry Gilbert
1956 Signet reissue
1851 Signet reissue – cover art by Stanley Meltzoff
Ballinger’s 3rd novel, 1950 Harper hardcover
also issued as The Deadlier Sex by Corgi in London
over art by Stanley Meltzoff
better image than previously posted
1953 Signet reissue – cover art by George T. Erickson
1952 Dutton hardcover, this the 1953 Signet softcover
his third book with Neal Cotten
cover art by George T. Erickson
better image than previously posted
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