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Mickey Spillane - Kiss Me, Deadly

23 Nov 2011 1 266
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

22 Nov 2011 166
Published by Gold Medal (283) in December 1952. Cover art is not credited.

Hank Janson - Conflict (Moring edition #2)

22 Nov 2011 259
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)

21 Nov 2011 276
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

17 Nov 2011 219
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

15 Nov 2011 310
Published by Monarch (107) in January 1959. Cover art by Robert Maguire.

Bernard Thielen - Open Season

08 Nov 2011 177
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

08 Nov 2011 257
Published by Ace (D-419) as part of a Mystery Double in 1960. Cover art by Robert Maguire.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Pirates of Venus

02 Nov 2011 177
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

30 Oct 2011 231
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

26 Oct 2011 175
Published by Gold Medal (k1507) in 1965.

Damon Runyon - Runyon: First and Last

26 Oct 2011 215
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

25 Oct 2011 221
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

25 Oct 2011 1 199
Published in hardback by Robert Hale (ISBN: 0709128770) in 1972.

Hank Janson - Conflict (Moring edition #1)

22 Oct 2011 250
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

22 Oct 2011 212
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…

21 Oct 2011 280
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.

Day Keene - Bring Him Back Dead

21 Oct 2011 237
Published by Gold Medal (603) in September 1956. Cover art by Barye Phillips.

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