
1964 Pyramid paperback original
cover art attributed to Robert Maguire, other thoughts are Rudy Nappi
2nd with series character John Keith, agent of A.P.E.

1964 Pyramid paperback original
cover art attributed to Robert Maguire, other thoughts are Rudy Nappi
2nd with series character John Keith, agent of A.P.E.

1944 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition
author’s first novel, Lew Archer was a few years away

1950 Lion reissue – cover art by E. Walter

1955 Lion reissue with different title
cover art by Clark Hulings



1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh


pseudonym of Richard Jessup
1961 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Mitchell Hooks
4th tongue-in-cheek spy thriller with Monty Nash
better image than previously posted

cover art by J. George Janes
better image than previously posted
~ Maurice Beam, “The White Lie”, ‘see p. 29 for letter from BM about story’, (thought to be possibly a pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem), 5th of 7 stories under this name in BM
~ H.W. Guernsey, “The Last Pin”, ‘short-short’, last of 4 stories in BM
~ H.F. Howard, “The Corpse Takes a Wife”, see 12/1940 for Harvey Howard: Hagemann says ‘entirely possible HH and HFH one and the same’
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Fisherman’s Luck”, 13th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, ‘Rice in South Florida’
~ Peter Paige, “Blackout!”, ‘spy story; set in Paris, early WWII‘, 4th of 12 stories in BM
~ William Tanquery, “Getting Maizie”, ‘Mac MacGrath & Jennie Komorawski, rival reporters’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Murder for Your Money”, ‘last (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 42nd of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by R. C. Wardell
Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”

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
