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Mickey Spillane - Kiss Me, Deadly
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First published by E.P. Dutton & Co. (hardback) in 1952. This paperback edition published by Signet (1000) is dated April 1953. Cover art by James Meese.
Sax Rohmer - The Fire Goddess
Hank Janson - Conflict (Moring edition #2)
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Originally published by New Fiction Press in June 1952. This edition first published by Alexander Moring in 1957, though this 2nd impression is dated June 1958 (but then so is Moring edition #1??). Cover art by Noiquet.
Bruno Fischer - The Fast Buck (2nd printing)
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First published by Gold Medal in 1952. This 2nd printing (s783) is dated June 1958. Cover art by James Meese.
Charles Williams - Man on a Leash
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First published in the U.S. by G.P. Putnam's in 1973. This U.K. edition published by the Thriller Book Club in 1974. Jacket design by Jim Robins. "Man on a Leash" was the last book published by Williams and has not been published in paperback.
Gil Brewer - Wild to Possess
Bernard Thielen - Open Season
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Originally published in hardback by Mystery House in 1958. This abridged paperback edition published by Ace (D-419) as part of a Mystery Double in 1960. Cover art is not credited (I have seen it online accredited to Robert Maguire, but I can't see his style in it at all.) Thanks to Lynn Munroe for identifying Paul Rader as the cover artist.
Bob McKnight - A Slice of Death
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Published by Ace (D-419) as part of a Mystery Double in 1960. Cover art by Robert Maguire.
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Pirates of Venus
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First published in hardback by ERB Inc. in 1934. This U.K. paperback edition published by New English Library (ISBN: 0450011658) is dated August 1972. Cover art is not credited.
Milton K. Ozaki - Too Many Women
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Originally published in hardback by Ziff-Davis as "The Cuckoo Clock" in 1946. This re-titled paperback edition published by Handi-Books in 1950. Cover art is not credited.
Charles Runyon - The Prettiest Girl I Ever Killed
Damon Runyon - Runyon: First and Last
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Originally published in hardback by J.B. Lippincott & Co. in 1949. Published in paperback by Graphic Publishing Co. in 1951, this second printing (69) is dated 1953. Cover art is not credited.
Whit Masterson - Why She Cries, I Do Not Know
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First published in the U.S. by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1972. This U.K. edition published in hardback by Robert Hale (ISBN: 0709142412) is dated 1974. Robert Wade continued to write as Whit Masterson after Bill Miller's death in 1961.
Spencer Curtis - A Picture of Murder
Hank Janson - Conflict (Moring edition #1)
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Originally published by New Fiction Press in June 1952. This edition first published by Alexander Moring in 1957, though this 2nd impression is dated June 1958 (but then so is Moring edition #2??).
Hank Janson - This Hood for Hire
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First published as "Vengeance" by New Fiction Press in 1953. This re-titled edition published by Roberts and Vinter (E154) in 1960. Cover art is not credited.
Day Keene - Dead Dolls Don't Talk (Australian edit…
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First published by Crest in 1959. This Australian edition from Eclipse Books, Dee Why West, New South Wales, is undated but likely to be from the 70s.