


better image than previously posted

cover art by Victor Kalin

two reissue editions from Stark House Press




better image than previously posted

cover art by Victor Kalin

two reissue editions from Stark House Press


1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover


1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas


1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper



Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH


1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English
3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani


Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed
– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –


1957 Phantom edition from Australia



1960 Gold Medal Book UK – No. 434
originally published in the US by GM Books # s845, 1959

movie tie-in edition to the 1964 film

reissue from Stark House Press, 2013


pseudonym of Bill Miller and Robert Wade. they also wrote as Will Daemer, Dale Wilmer and White Masterson
cover art by Charles Copeland

cover art by Jerry Allison
better image than previously posted

1946 Farrar Strauss hardcover
November 1960 Signet paperback, third printing
the first novel by these cousins, a stand-alone murder mystery
