
1963 Corgi UK paperback original
cover art by Renato Fratini


1969 Signet edition – 1st US edition
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by Terry Gilbert

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

Ballinger’s 3rd novel, 1950 Harper hardcover
also issued as The Deadlier Sex by Corgi in London
over art by Stanley Meltzoff
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1952 Dutton hardcover, this the 1953 Signet softcover
his third book with Neal Cotten
cover art by George T. Erickson
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Nightmare Alley. William Lindsay Gresham. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc. 1946. First edition. Original dust jacket; art by A. F. Arnold.
Scarce macabre carnival themed thriller. “Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There’s a rat buried deep in everybody and they’ll rat on you if they get pushed far enough.”

cover art by James Avati
first film adaptation in 1947

second in 2021


pseudonym of Bill Miller and Robert Wade. they also wrote as Will Daemer, Dale Wilmer and White Masterson
cover art by Charles Copeland

cover art by Jerry Allison
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cover art by Robert McGinnis
first published in Australia by Horowitz, 1962, then in the US by Signet, a paperback original
cover art repurposed for 1967 Signet by James Dark


first published as a hardcover in 1938 by Knopf, his third novel

1951 Signet reissue – cover art by Ray Pease



[post updated 4/10/26]

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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