
1959 Fawcett paperback original
3rd with Southern Californian private eye Joe Puma
cover art by Robert Abbett
cover art kept for later edition

1959 Fawcett paperback original
3rd with Southern Californian private eye Joe Puma
cover art by Robert Abbett
cover art kept for later edition


2nd with Southern California private eye Brock Callahan
cover art by Mitchell Hooks
better image than previously posted

1989 No Exit reissue from the UK

cover art by Malvin Singer
~ D.L. Champion, “Padlocked Pockets”, 23rd if 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 25th of 30 stories in BM
~ Ed Edstrom, “Never Call the Cops”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “A Killer in the Crowd”, ‘1st-person; homicide lieutenant, NYPD’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Constant Shadow”, 4th of 9 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “High Voltage Homicide”, ‘Lee Bassler, ‘phone company trouble-shooter’, last of 6 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Murder’s No Libel”, last of 14 with Ken O’Hara, ‘now press agent for Hotel Diplomat’, 24th of 27 stories in BM
~ Michael Sutton, “Concerto for Guns”, ‘Johnny Dillon, LA private ‘tec, 1st person narrator‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop


cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
John D. MacDonald, “The Man From Limbo”
William Campbell Gault, “There’s Got to be an Angle”
Frederick C. Davis, “The Deadly Double”
Westmoreland Gray, “One Head Shorter”
Rufus Bakalor, “Tailspin Cutie”
John Bender, “She Wouldn’t Stay Dead”
John Lawrence, “Music from Hell”
Coretta Slavsky, “Relax and Regret”
