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Donald Hamilton - Murder Twice Told

30 Nov 2009 207
Published by Dell (577) in 1950. Cover art by Robert Stanley.

John D. MacDonald - The Drowner

30 Nov 2009 238
First published by Gold Medal in 1963. This 2nd printing (D1599) is undated but is circa 1965.

Carter Brown - The Plush-Lined Coffin

30 Nov 2009 198
Published by Signet (D3289) in October 1967. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Hank Janson - Expectant Nymph

29 Nov 2009 270
First published as "Murder" by New Fiction Press in 1952. This re-titled (and re-written) U.S. edition published by Gold Star ((IL7-32) in 1964. Cover art by Robert Maguire. It's ironic that a set of books prosecuted for obscenity in the 1950s in the U.K. were made racier less than a decade later for publication in the U.S.

Hank Janson - Avenging Nymph

29 Nov 2009 165
Published by Alexander Moring in 1958.

Edward S. Aarons - Assignment Stella Marni

29 Nov 2009 330
First published by Gold Medal in April 1957. This 2nd printing (906) is dated July 1959. Cover art is not credited, but is by Robert Abbett.

Wade Miller - Stolen Woman

29 Nov 2009 210
Published by Gold Medal (139) in November 1950.

Owen Dudley - The Deep End

28 Nov 2009 153
Published as a Mystery Double by Ace Books (D-195) in 1956. Owen Dudley was a pseudonym of Dudley Dean McGaughey.

Robert Colby - The Quaking Widow

28 Nov 2009 156
Published as a Mystery Double by Ace Books (D-195) in 1956.

William Campbell Gault - The Wayward Widow

28 Nov 2009 258
Published by Crest (281) in March 1959.

William Campbell Gault - Sweet Wild Wench

28 Nov 2009 352
Published by Crest (309) in July 1959. Cover art by Robert Abbett.

Bruno Fischer - Murder in the Raw (Gold Medal edit…

28 Nov 2009 278
Published by Gold Medal (694) in August 1957. Cover art by James Meese. Evidence that a former owner put masking tape at top and bottom - unbelievable!!

Stephen Ransome - The Men in Her Death (Perma edit…

28 Nov 2009 202
First published in hardback by Doubleday in July 1956. This paperback edition published by PermaBooks (M-3091) in June 1957. Cover art by Robert E. Schulz.

Wade Miller - The Killer (1st printing)

28 Nov 2009 248
Published by Gold Medal (152) in August 1951. Cover art by C.C. Beall.

Bill S. Ballinger - Beacon in the Night

28 Nov 2009 168
First published by Harper & Brothers (hardback) in 1958. This first paperback edition published by Signet (S1794) is dated July 1960.

Dale Wilmer - Dead Fall (Bantam edition)

28 Nov 2009 1 228
First published by Bouregy & Curl (hardback) in January 1954. This Bantam paperback edition (1420) published in February 1956.

Whit Masterson - A Shadow in the Wild

27 Nov 2009 198
First published in the U.S. by Dodd Mead (hardback) in 1957. This U.K. paperback edition published by Corgi (SC743) in 1959. Cover art by Oliver Brabbins.

Talmage Powell - Start Screaming Murder

26 Nov 2009 200
Published by PermaBooks (M-4251) in June 1962.

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