
cover by Samuel Cherry
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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

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “Mexican Slayride” (Mariano Mercado)
Dale Clark, “False Colors” (Plates O’Rion)
Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Four Skeletons” (The Dean)
Mel Watt, “Killer Come Back to Me” (Sam Coad)
Bruno Fischer, “I’ll Slay You in My Dreams”
Ken Lewis, “Parlor, Bedroom and Death”
