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Published by Gold Medal (847) in January 1959. Richard Telfair was a pseudonym of Richard Jessup. Cover art by Bill Johnson. Back cover synopsis: "My name is Montgomery Nash and I am an agent in the European section of the Department of Counter Intelligence. Most of our work is done in teams and my partner is Paul Austin. Was Paul Austin, I should say. His battered and beaten body was found yesterday. I still can't believe it. For three years we've lived and thought as one man; we've been tortured, betrayed, starved. We've saved each other's lives many times. Well, Paul's dead now and I have a mission - to find his killer and force him to die the ugly way my best friend did."

Published by Gold Medal (806) in September 1958. Back cover synopsis: "The evidence against him was piling up: He'd been seen entering her motel room. Nobody had seen him leave. His fingerprints were on the murder weapon. His raincoat was blood-stained. He couldn't clearly account for his actions on the night of the murder because he'd been drinking. He was an ex-prize fighter with a reputation for a bad temper. Only two people knew he was innocent - himself and the real murderer."

Published by Gold Medal (622) in November 1956. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Back cover synopsis: "She lay wide-eyed and dead in the expensive house...one of her own nylon stockings tied so tightly around her beautiful neck that her face had already begun to discolor. She was still warm when her husband found her. Hanson looked down at her in the pre-dawn. Then he packed his bags, dyed his hair, and headed south to Mexico with another man's passport. Hanson ran because he was innocent and knew that no one would believe him. Because he was wholly and violently in love with his secretary, a lissome, dark girl who ran with him - and who already had involved him once in murder. Somewhere in the city a killer nodded with pleasure. Two deaths, and one to go - but the state would burn Hanson for him..."

Published by Gold Medal (402) in May 1954. Bernard Mara was a pseudonym of Brian Moore. Cover art by Clark Hulings. Back cover synopsis: "Américain - Noah Cain, big, tough lad, penniless in Paris - and up to his ears in bizarre and bloody doings. Les femmes - Blondes, brunettes and redheads - wild and expensive - all out to lure Cain into the arms of violence. Montmarte -The place the put the "gay" in Paree, the gaudy jungle where Cain roamed by night - in desperate flight from the guillotine. Assassin - The knife artist, the two-time killer, the man Noah Cain had to bring back alive - in order to keep his own head."

First published as "A Little Sin" by Dodd, Mead & Co (hardback) in 1958. This re-titled paperback edition published by Dell (D360) in July 1960. Gorgeous cover art by Ted Coconis.

Published by New English Library (ISBN: 0450014355) in April 1973. Adam Hardy was a pseudonym of Kenneth Bulmer. Cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey.

First published by Viking Press (hardback) in 1960 and by Dell (paperback) in 1961. This U.K. edition published by Pan (G679) in 1964.

First published by Dodd, Mead & Co (hardback) as "All Through the Night" in 1955. This re-titled first paperback edition published by Bantam (1487) in August 1956.

First published by Gold Medal in 1960. This (2nd?) printing (d1636) published in March 1966. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

First published by Dell in 1956. This first Gold Medal edition (d1579) is undated but is from 1965. Cover art by Bill Johnson.

First published by Dodd, Mead & Co (hardback) in 1949 and by Signet (paperback) in 1950. This later paperback edition from Dell (910) is undated but is circa 1956. Cover art by Jerry Powell.

Published by Gold Medal (206) in 1951. Cover art by Barye Phillips.

Published by Gold Medal (105) in May 1950. This 2nd printing was published in the same month.

Published by Gold Medal (286) in February 1953. Cover art by Barye Phillips.

First published by Lion in 1953. This edition published in the UK by Corgi (ISBN: 055213242X) in 1988.

Published by Gold Medal (864) in March 1959.

Published by Gold Medal in 1953. This 2nd printing (k1353) is dated October 1963.

First published by Gold Medal in 1953. This 2nd printing (s1012) is dated June 1960.