1953 Popular Library paperback original
cover art by Walter Popp
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his third novel, three years before first publishing under the name Ed McBain
1953 Popular Library paperback original – cover art by Walter Popp
Tag: suspense
What’s in it for Me? x 4
1938 Simon and Schuster hardcover
1950 Avon reissue – cover art by Ray Johnson
cover art attributed to James Avati
nice cover – nice dame, but his right leg simply doesn’t work right… it’s completely out of proportion to his body and left leg – too long!
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1960 Crest reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
originally published as Duo: The Girl with a Secret and Incident at a Corner, 1959 hardcover by Coward McCann, this the later 1960 Crest paperback of just one of the novellas
cover art by Charles Binger
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Beast in View x 3
1956 Edgar Mystery Writers of America Award for Best Novel of the year
cover art by Mitchell Hooks
1950 Bantam reissue
2013 Penguin trade paperback
edited by Sarah Weinman, an historical survey of the “Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense”.
authors include Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Helen Neilsen, Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar and Vera Caspary.
[last cover updated 4/13/25]
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