
cover art by Samuel Cherry

watercolor and gouache on board, 14.875 x 12.375 in. (sight)
signed lower right
Ace Double D-469, 1960 – both covers
better image than previously posted

the flip side of this Ace Double paperback



Man-Killer by Talmage Powell, Ace Double, 1960
Watercolor and gouache on board
14.875 x 12.375 in. (sight)
Signed lower right

better image than previously posted


~ Richard Deming, “Big Shots Die Young”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 4th of 6 stories in BM
~ Frank Gordon, “Last Kill and Testament”, ‘Alphonse Bertillon’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ W. Lee Herrington, [also published in BM as Alan Farley], “Die, Die Again”, last of 4 stories under this name in BM
~ Edward A. Herron, “Death’s 43 Days”, ‘Yukon short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Heritage of Hate”, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ Larry J. Marcus, “Through the Murder Glass”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Richest Man in Graveyard”, 3rd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective‘, 5th of 8 stories in BM
~ Talmage Powell, “Her Dagger Before Me”, ‘Tampa (Florida) p.i. Lloyd’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), author’s only appearance in BM
~ Harold Preece, “Boulevard Buzzards”, ‘short-short; Paris in 1880’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Robert P. Toombs, “These Dead Hands Reaching”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
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[original art added 1/30/26]