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1950 Handi-Book digest original
cover art by George Gross



cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

1963 Beacon paperback original with updated artwork

cover art by Norman Saunders
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Robert Martin, “Death Under Glass” (Lee Fisk)
Hank Searls, “For Tomorrow We Die”
Talmage Powell, “Nobody’s Darling”
Frederick C. Davis, “Furlough for Murder” (reprint from 1943)
Larry Holden, “Prelude for Wake”
Don James, “G-String Kill”
John Bender, “In Jail By Christmas” (published in 1941 as “Prelude to an Operation”)
Ray Darby, “According to Plan”


cover art by James Lunnon
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~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Careless Killer”, 3rd of 7 Beeker stories, 17th of 21 stories in BM
~ Allen Beck, “Long Live the Dead”, ‘magician’, only story in BM
~ Hugh B. Cave, “Smoke in Your Eyes”, ‘unusually well-plotted’, 5th of 9 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Stop the Presses”, 2nd with reporter Murray Gifford, ‘see p. 51 for data on how FCD writes’, 6th of 16 stories in BM
~ M.P. Hall, “Ad Lib”, ‘short-short, radio broadcasting’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Concealed Weapon”, ‘10 (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 37th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Donald Wandrei, “Come Clean”, last of 6 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop


Model Carol Siebeck posing for Kiss Me, Deadly, 1960 Signet 1758 20th printing. Cover art by James Avati.



1963 Corgi UK paperback original
cover art by Renato Fratini


1969 Signet edition – 1st US edition
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by Terry Gilbert