
August 1954 issue of Police Cases


Gold Medal paperback original (June, 1963)
pseudonym for Prentice Winchell, the only book he wrote under this pen name – also wrote as Stewart Sterling
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted

1950 Simon & Schuster hardcover, this the later 1953 Dell paperback reissue
stand-alone mystery
cover art by George Geygan
better image than previously posted


5th in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, originally published in 1930 – this a later reissue and, certainly, ‘pulped up’ and made to appear much more hardboiled. It is also the novel in which Lord Peter first meets the love of his life, mystery writer Harriet Vane