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Martin Thomas - The Hands of Cain

18 May 2011 172
First published in the U.K. by Mayflower-Dell in 1966. This edition published by Five Star is dated 1972. Re-titled in the U.S. as "The Hand of Cain" - big difference!

Ian Fleming - Goldfinger (Pan edition)

18 May 2011 231
First published by Jonathan Cape (hardback) in 1959 and Pan (paperback) in 1961. This eighth printing (X238) is dated 1963. Cover art by Pat Owen.

Joseph Chadwick - The Golden Frame

16 May 2011 263
Published by Gold Medal (493) in June 1955. Cover art by James Meese.

Robert E. Howard - The Hand of Kane

16 May 2011 201
Published by Centaur Press as part of their "time-lost" series in October 1970. Cover art by Jeff Jones.

Day Keene - Take a Step to Murder

14 May 2011 206
First published in the U.S. by Gold Medal in 1959. This U.K. edition published by Five Star is dated 1973.

Edward S. Aarons - Assignment Lili Lamaris

12 May 2011 327
Published by Gold Medal (s911) in August 1959. Cover art by Barye Phillips.

Dan Cushman - Port Orient

10 May 2011 204
Published by Gold Medal (535) in November 1955. Cover art by Lu Kimmel.

Kenneth Harker - The Symmetrians

10 May 2011 229
Published by Compact (F308) in 1966. Cover art is not credited.

Arthur Sellings - Time Transfer

10 May 2011 197
First published in hardback by Michael Joseph in 1956. This paperback edition (omitting 5 stories) published by Compact (F302) is dated 1966. Cover art is not credited.

Donald F. Glut - Frankenstein Lives Again

06 May 2011 147
Published by Mews (ISBN: 0452000602) in January 1977. Mews was a short-lived imprint of New English Library. Cover art by Tony Masero.

John McPartland - The Last Night

06 May 2011 205
Publshed by Gold Medal (909) in August 1959. Cover art is, annoyingly, not credited.

Philip E. High - Reality Forbidden

05 May 2011 169
Published as part of an Ace Double (G-609) together with A. Bertram Chandler's "Contraband from Otherspace" in 1967. Cover art by Jack Gaughan.

Robert Markham - Colonel Sun

04 May 2011 231
Published by Triad Panther (ISBN: 0586044949) in 1978. Robert Markham was a pseudonym of Kingsley Amis.

Robert O. Saber - The Black Dark Murders

03 May 2011 216
First published in the U.S. by Handi-Books in 1949. This U.K. edition was the first book published by the short-lived Jewel Books, and is undated but is circa 1953. Jewel only published 16 novels, all of them reprints from Handi-Books, Lion and Pyramid. Cover art is taken from the Handi-Books edition, the artist unknown.

Carlton Keith - A Gem of a Murder

03 May 2011 219
Originally published in hardback as "The Diamond-Studded Typewriter" by Macmillan in 1958. This re-titled paperback edition published by Dell (1007) is dated November 1959. Carlton Keith was a pseudonym of Keith Robertson. Wonderful cover art by Harry Schaare.

Peter Saxon - Satan's Child (Mayflower edition)

02 May 2011 295
Published in the U.K. by Mayflower in 1967. Peter Saxon was originally a pseudonym of W. Howard Baker but it became a house name when Baker took over the editorial reins of the Sexton Blake line. At least five other authors published as Peter Saxon - Wilfred McNeilly, Martin Thomas, Rex Dolphin, Stephen D. Frances and Ross Richards - this particular novel is by Wilfred McNeilly. Cover art is not credited.

Dan J. Marlowe - Operation Hammerlock

30 Apr 2011 174
Published by Fawcett Gold Medal (M2974) in June 1974. Cover art is not credited. Ninth book in the "Earl Drake" series that evolved from criminal/anti-hero into espionage.

Stephen Marlowe - Manhunt is My Mission

29 Apr 2011 161
Published by Gold Medal (s1116) in May 1961. Cover art is uncredited (Barye?)

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