1953 Croyden digest original
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cover art by Clarence Doore x 2
1940 Simon and Schuster hardcover as The Bride Wore Black, first novel and the beginning of his “Black” title run
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August 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
November 1954 Popular Press paperback
November 1954 Popular Press paperback, second printing
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4th with private eye Timothy Dane
“When Timothy Dane is hired by a ruthless gang of hoodlums to find the killer of their chief, the tough private eye finds himself caught in a crossfire between vicious mobsters, gun-happy cops, and men living by the jungle law of the waterfront – plus a luscious show-girl whose specialty is a certain kind of ‘private party’”
September 1935 issue ~ cover art by George Gross
cover art by George Gross
though no story refers to it, the figure at the left looks like Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu
November 1953 issue
Femme Fatale
Hardest of the Hardboiled #2 x 7
1933 Doubleday Doran advance reading copy
1948 Avon reprint, 1st paperback edition
cover art by Ann Cantor
Fast One was Cain’s sole novel
Chandler termed it the “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner”
cover art by Victor Olsen
1978 Southern Illinois University Press
an entry in their “Lost American Fiction” series
1980 Popular Library 1st print reissue
cover art by Jin Campbell
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
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