first published as a hardcover in 1938 by Knopf, his third novel
1951 Signet reissue
cover art by Ray Pease
1951 Signet reissue
Tag: signet paperback
1965 Signet edition – cover art by Barye Phillips
1965 Signet
Australian paperback thriller by “James Dark” (house name, used i.e. by James Macdonnell). The American edition cover: Barye Phillips.
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1969 Signet paperback original ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis
cover painting by Robert McGinnis
Carter Brown was a pseudonym for Alan Geoffrey Yates 1969 Horowitz paperback reprinted that same year by Signet
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Blonde on the Rocks x 4 + 1
1964 Horwitz International reissue
cover art by Robert McGinnis
Gouache on board, 22 x 15 inches (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed lower center right: R. M.Ginnis
1971 Signet reissue, third printing
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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The Kiss-off x 3
1951 Simon & Schuster, and Inner Sanctum Mystery
1951 Signet mass market release
also published as Goodbye Stranger in England, 1952
cover art by Carl Bobertz
cover art by Art Sussman
1951 Signet reissue ~ cover art by Warren King
1955 Signet reissue
1953 Dutton hardcover, this the later Signet reissue
cover art by Robert Maguire
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1968 Signet paperback ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis
1968 Horwitz hardcover, Signet paperback original later that year
cover art by Robert McGinnis
published in the UK by Four Square as The Witches, 1969
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1953 Signet reissue ~ cover art by James Meese
cover art by Robert Maguire
Draw the Curtain first published in 1947 by Jefferson House. 1958 Signet reprint with the different title.This is his first book with a Chicago private eye whose identity is a closely guarded secret. He’s known only as “Mac”
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SMB Noir 
