1949 Simon & Schuster hardcover, his third with private eye Peter Chambers. Kane preferred “private richard” to “private dick”
cover art by Victor Kalin
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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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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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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
1953 Dutton hardcover, this the later Signet reissue
cover art by Robert Maguire
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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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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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December 1954 Signet reissue, first printing
cover painting by Robert Maguire
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