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Hank Janson - Bring Me Sorrow

12 Mar 2010 192
Originally published as "Skirts Bring Me Sorrow" by New Fiction Press in 1951. This re-titled edition published by Alexander Moring in 1956.

Hank Janson - 48 Hours

12 Mar 2010 203
Published by Alexander Moring in December 1955.

Bruno Fischer - More Deaths Than One

12 Mar 2010 253
First published by Ziff Davis(hardback) in 1947. This paperback edition published by Pocket Books (521) in July 1948. Cover art by William Wirtz.

Robert Ames - The Devil Drives

12 Mar 2010 242
Published by Gold Medal (269) in November 1952. Cover art by Barye Phillips.

Neil Langholm - Trail of Blood

11 Mar 2010 271
Published by Sphere (ISBN: 0722149956) in 1976. Neil Langholm was a pseudonym used by Laurence James and Kenneth Bulmer, in this instance by Bulmer. Cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey. My copy is particularly grubbly, but I think you can still get the gist of the image!!

Wade Miller - Fatal Step (Australian edition)

11 Mar 2010 1 336
First published by Farar, Straus & Co. (hardback) in 1948. This digest edition (707) published by Phantom Books, Sydney, Australia in 1956.

Peter O'Donnell - Modesty Blaise (Crest edition)

10 Mar 2010 265
First published by Souvenir Press (hardback) in 1965. This paperback edition published by Fawcett Crest (R899) in March 1966. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Ian Fleming - Dr. No (Pan edition)

10 Mar 2010 214
First published by Jonathan Cape (hardback) in 1958 and Pan (paperback) in 1960. This fourth printing (G335) is dated 1961.

Ron Goulart (edited by) - The Hardboiled Dicks

09 Mar 2010 174
First published by the Sherbourne Press (hardback) in October 1965. This paperback edition published by Pocket Books (50560) in October 1967. Contents: Introduction by Ron Goulart; Don't Give Your Right Name by Norbert Davis; The Saint in Silver by John K. Butler; Winter Kill by Frederick Nebel; China Man by Raoul Whitfield; Death on Eagle's Crag by Frank Gruber; A Nose for News by Richard Sale; Angelfish by Lester Dent; Bird in the Hand by Erle Stanley Gardner; An Informal Reading List.

Jaclen Steele - The Forbidden Room

09 Mar 2010 203
Published by Gold Medal (221) in February 1952. Jaclen Steele was a pseudonym of Jack and Helen Steele. Cover art by Barye Phillips.

Keith Roberts - Pavane

08 Mar 2010 169
First published in the U.K. by Rupert Hart-Davis (hardback) in 1968. This first paperback edition published by Panther (ISBN 0586033599) in 1970. Cover art by Brian Edwards. Contents: Prologue; The Lady Margaret; The Signaller; Brother John; Lords and Ladies; Corfe Gate; Coda.

Howard Schoenfeld - Let Them Eat Bullets

08 Mar 2010 241
First published by Gold Medal in 1954. This third printing (870) is dated April 1959. There appears to be a signature (possibly Barye Phillips) among the creases to the bottom right.

Raymond Giles - Night of the Griffin

08 Mar 2010 287
First published in the U.S. in 1971as "Children of the Griffin" by Elizabeth Giles. This retitled edition published in the U.K. by New English Library (ISBN: 0450009866) in December 1971. Cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey.

John D. MacDonald - All These Condemned

08 Mar 2010 214
First published by Gold Medal in 1954. This third printing (894) is dated June 1959.

Hank Janson - Kill Her with Passion

07 Mar 2010 255
First published as "Crowns Can Kill" by Roberts & Vinter in 1961. This re-titled (and re-written) edition published by Gold Star ( IL7-11) in 1963. Stephen D. Frances had stopped writing the Hank Janson novels by late 1959, and the author of this novel was Harry Hobson. Cover art by Harry Barton.

Ivor Drummond - The Priests of the Abomination

07 Mar 2010 285
First published in the U.K. by Macmillan & Co. (hardback) in 1970. This paperback edition published by Mayflower (ISBN: 0583119352) in 1971. Ivor Drummond was a pseudonym of Roger Longrigg.

John Blackburn - A Scent of New-Mown Hay

06 Mar 2010 168
First published in the U.K. by Secker & Warburg (hardback) in 1958. This paperback edition published by Digit Books in 1964.

John Evans - Halo in Blood

06 Mar 2010 190
First published by Bobbs-Merrill (hardback) and Bantam (paperback) in 1946. This 3rd Bantam printing (1728) is dated February 1958.

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