
George Maxwell, ed. Le Trotteur. Coll. Noire Franco-Américaine. Cover Salva. 1953.

George Maxwell, ed. Le Trotteur. Coll. Noire Franco-Américaine. Cover Salva. 1953.
1947 Curl release with this title

1948 Quinn release as Death About Face

Canadian 1951 Harlequin edition
cover art by George Shane


this the 1953 Ace Double reissue with original title

1958 Dell release as The Fatal Foursome
1st Johnny Liddell novel

April 1964 Belmont paperback original
13th with Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg
cover art by Victor Kalin
better image than previously posted


better image than previously posted

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ D.L. Champion, “Split Fee”, 4th of 26 with Sackler, 5th of 30 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Hot Towels”, 5th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 7th of 32 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Death Do Us Part”, 4th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 4th of 20 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “The Cat with a Headache”, 5th of 10 with PI Cellini Smith, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 6th of 12 appearances in BM
~ Stewart Sterling, “Over My Dead Body”, 4th of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (Bomb & Forgery); see p.8 for note by SS on story’, 7th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]
~ Roger Torrey, “Snakes in the Grass”, ‘3rd of Bryant (4 stories), a regular U.S. Army man, who works in a CCC camp; 1st-person narrator’, ‘- in a Southern CCC camp’, 49th of 50 appearances in BM
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reprint of June 1941 US issue