GRAPHIC BOOKS
Publisher: Graphic Publishing Co., Inc. 22 Bond St., New York 12, NY, #s 11 - (23) [same] (181 Boulevard), Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, #s (25) - (119), G101 - (G211) [same] (240 West 40 St.), New York, NY, #s (121) – 157, (G214) - G223 Distributor: ANC Format: short paperback Price: no prefix = 25¢, except # 91: 35¢ G prefix: = 35¢
Graphic Books were published by Samuel Tankel (1911-2002) and Zane Bouregy (1911-1975). Bouregy was born in Turkey. They were both photo-engravers and wrote a definitive book on two-color lithography; this publishing venture would seem to have been a sideline to that business. In the June 1954 and 1955 issues of The Writer, market reports give B. Wiliams as the editor. The June 1953 issue lists Zane Bouregy as editor.
Although the early volumes gave the publisher's full address on the title or copyright page, after a certain point the street address only appeared in mail-order ads in the back of the books, not all of which had such ads. Thus, my parenthetical listing of the street addresses in the publisher's notes above.
Books are generally dated by year only, although some later printings may specify a month for earlier printings. The publication dates given in the copyright registrations provide the only clues to frequency of publication. As a general rule, from 1949 to 1953, the books were issued at an average rate of one a month, with occasional gaps. From 1954 to 1957, the 25¢ series were issued at an average of 2 books a month, with the 35¢ books as irregular additions. As one would expect from such a meager publishing schedule, the books appear to have been issued sequentially, although some of the reissues may have been issued more randomly.
The 25¢ series concentrated on genre fiction, primarily mysteries, with an increasing proportion of westerns towards the end of the run. The 35¢ series published primarily historical novels, with other diverse publications, including non-fiction, mixed in. It would have been interesting to see in what directions Graphic Books might have gone if they had continued publishing but, unfortunately, Graphic Books was a casualty of their distributor's dissolution; the last books appeared in May 1957.
All together Graphic published 127 different books, with 44 re-issues, for a total of 171 volumes. 71 titles were originals and 54 were reprints. There were 6 collections, 2 anthologies and one omnibus. Two books were non- fiction; the rest were novels. Counting the re-issues there were 103 volumes of crime and mysteries, accounting for 60% of the books published. By contrast, there were only 40 westerns, and 16 historical novels. There were 8 books that could be loosely classified as humor and 4 miscellaneous titles. It may be worth noting that Graphic Books may be the longest running and most prolific imprint to have published no science fiction.
All but one of the books have illustrated covers. Almost all of the reissues use the same art as the first printing and I have indicated these repeats. Most of the later books have separate back-cover art; most of the Giants have art that wraps around onto the back cover. I have indicated both of these circumstances by inserting the notations (+bc) and (w/a), respectively, in the Artist Index listings. For convenience I have annotated the back covers as if they were done by the same artists as the front covers, but signatures are rare on either cover and one instance is known where they were done by different artists. Starting at the end of 1955, all the new books in the 25¢ line carried a cover artist credit inside; reissues of earlier books continued to be uncredited. The Giants were hit-or- miss in this regard, with less than half having cover credits.
73 covers are either signed, credited, or have been reliably attributed from secondary sources. Two more have illegible signatures. 51 of the unidentified covers were used on more than one edition. After adding another 16 unidentified books in order to document the presence of back-cover art and wrap-around covers, I had pushed the total coverage to well over the 75% mark, so I bit the bullet and did a full Artist Index of all 171 books. Don’t get spoiled; it’s unlikely to happen again. The Bookscans database displays all 171 covers.
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GRAPHIC BOOKS
NUMERICAL LISTING
11 Wade, Bob & Miller, Bill Murder—Queen High [Spr] 1949 12 Waugh, Hillary If I Live to Dine 1949 13 Whelton, Paul Flash—Hold for Murder 1949 14 Fox, James M. Death Commits Bigamy 1949 15 Mulford, Clarence E. Tex [Sep] 1949 16 Irish, William Deadline at Dawn 1949 17 Whelton, Paul Call the Lady Indiscreet [Oct] 1949 18 Ballard, W. T. Dealing out Death 1950 19 Whelton, Paul Lures of Death 1950 20 Irish, William Dilemma of the Dead Lady 1950 (Collection, abridged from The Blue Ribbon, Lippincott, 1949. Omits two stories from the hardcover.) Contents: 5 Dilemma of the Dead Lady 43 The Lie 74 Hot Towel 90 The Dog with the Wooden Leg 136 The Blue Ribbon 169 Subway 21 Marcus, A. A. The Widow Gay 1950 22 Roeburt, John Tough Cop [May] 1950 23 Mulford, Clarence E. The Man from Bar-20 1950 24 Whelton, Paul Uninvited Corpse 1950 25 MacDonald, William Colt The Singing Scorpion 1950 26 Ballard, W. T. Murder Can't Stop 1950 27 Roeburt, John Corpse on the Town [© 1/24] 1950 28 Mulford, Clarence E. Tex Jan 1951 29 Wilmer, Dale Memo for Murder [© 2/1] 1951 30 Runyon, Damon Runyon First and Last 1951 (Collection, Lippincott, 1949. In spite of the blurb that says it has 25 stories, it contains 27 of the 39 stories in the hardcover.) Contents: 9 Blonde Mink 23 Big Boy Blues 39 The Defense of Strikerville 55 Fat Fallon 66 Two Men Named Collins 76 As Between Friends 89 The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew 106 My Father 119 A Dangerous Guy Indeed 123 Old New Year's 126 A Story Without a Moral 129 The Old Men of the Mountain 135 At Dead Mule Crossing 138 A Right Good-Looking Gal 142 As Far as a Man Possibly Can 146 In One Ear—
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150 Dumb Dan, the Wooden Indian 153 A Very Married Man 157 A Very Touching Story to Some 161 What Do You Think They See? 165 A Big Strong Man Six Feet Two 168 Nellie Morgan 171 A Great Hand for Playing Jokes 175 A Slight Hitch in Uncle Tom's Cabin 179 Bad Bud and the Reverend 182 Old Simp 186 100 Percent Man 31 Irish, William Deadly Night Call 1951 (Collection, abridged from Somebody on the Phone, Lippincott, 1950. Omits two stories from the hardcover.) Contents: 5 Johnny on the Spot 31 Deadly Night Call 37 Momentum 71 Boy with Body 98 Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair 118 The Room with Something Wrong 32 Rohmer, Sax Hangover House 1951 33 Ozaki, Milton K. The Dummy Murder Case [© 4/2] 1951 34 Lehman, Paul E. Texas Men 1951 35 Marcus, A. A. Walk the Bloody Boulevard [© 5/15] 1951 36 Whittington, Harry Call Me Killer [© 6/1] 1951 37 Whelton, Paul Pardon My Blood 1951 38 Roeburt, John Tough Cop Sep 1951 39 Lehman, Paul E. Vultures of Paradise Valley 1951 40 Stokes, Manning Lee The Crooked Circle [© 10/15] 1951 41 Whittington, Harry Murder Is My Mistress [©11/8] 1951 42 Roeburt, John There Are Dead Men in Manhattan 1951 43 Keene, Day If the Coffin Fits 1952 44 Ernenwein, Leslie Gun Hawk 1952 45 Martin, Aylwin E. Death for a Hussy 1952 46 Whittington, Harry Mourn the Hangman 1952 47 Lehman, Paul E. Faces in the Dust 1952 48 Knight, David Pattern for Murder 1952 49 Whelton, Paul In Comes Death 1952 50 MacDonald, William Colt The Singing Scorpion 1952 51 Keene, Day Framed in Guilt 1952 52 Fagaly, Al & Shorten, Harry There Oughta Be a Law! Al Fagaly 1952 53 Mulford, Clarence E. Tex 1952 54 Wade, Bob & Miller, Bill Murder—Queen High Fall 1952 55 Powell, Richard A Shot in the Dark 1952 56 Lehman, Paul E. Texas Men 1952 57 Ozaki, Milton K. The Deadly Pick-up [© 12/29/52] [Jan] 1953 58 Keene, Day Strange Witness [© 1/19] 1953 59 Ronns, Edward Dark Destiny [© 2/2] 1953 60 Richards, William Dead Man's Tide [© 2/16] 1953 61 Fagaly, Al & Shorten, Harry There Oughta Be a Law! Al Fagaly 1953 62 Ernenwein, Leslie Gun Hawk 1953 63 Roeburt, John Tough Cop [Apr] 1953
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64 Marcus, A. A. Walk the Bloody Boulevard 1953 65 Ballard, W. T. Murder Can't Stop 1953 66 Lehman, Paul E. Vultures of Paradise Valley [1953] 67 Marcus, A. A. Post-Mark Homicide 1953 68 Ronns, Edward The Net 1953 69 Runyon, Damon Runyon First and Last 1953 (Collection, reissue; see #30, above, for contents.) 70 Reach James Late Last Night 1954 71 Whelton, Paul Pardon My Blood 1954 72 Ballard, W. T. Dealing out Death Walter Popp 1954 73 Dewey, Thomas B. Handle with Fear 1954 74 Martin, Chuck Two-Gun Fury [© 2/10] 1954 75 Keene, Day The Big Kiss-off [© 3/2] 1954 76 Ronns, Edward Say It with Murder Marchetti [© 3/24] 1954 77 Holmes, L. P. Gunman's Greed Leone 1954 78 Rohmer, Sax Hangover House 1954 79 Ozaki, Milton Dressed to Kill Walter Popp [© 4/5] 1954 80 Colter, Eli Blood on the Range 1954 81 Irish, William Deadly Night Call 1954 (Collection, reissue; see #31, above, for contents.) 82 Lockridge, Richard & Frances Stand up and Die Saul Levine 1954 83 Gardner, Curtiss T. The Fatal Cast 1954 84 Bergquist, Lillian & Moore, Irving Your Shot, Darling(!) 1954 85 Fagaly, Al & Shorten, Harry More There Oughta Be a Law! Al Fagaly 1954 86 Martin, Chuck Texas Pride Summers [© 7/6] 1954 87 Keene, Day Homicidal Lady [© 9/10] 1954 88 Pendleton, Ford Outlaw Justice Leone [© 9/17] 1954 89 Van Dine, S. S. The Scarab Murder Case 1954 90 Saber, Robert O. Too Young to Die Walter Popp [© 10/14] 1954 91 Mulford, Clarence E. Tex 1954 92 Ozaki, Milton K. The Deadly Pick-up No v 1954 93 Powell, Richard Say It with Bullets 1954 94 Marlowe, Stephen Model for Murder Walter Popp [© 2/15] 1955 95 Whelton, Paul Call the Lady Indiscreet No v 1954 96 Thurman, Steve Gun Lightning(!) [© 2/24] 1955 97 Baker, Samm Sinclair One Touch of Blood [© 3/22] 1955 98 Stokes, Manning Lee Too Many Murderers Clyde Ross 1955 99 Saber, Robert O. Sucker Bait [Robert Maguire] [© 4/21] 1955
100 Lehman, Paul E. Faces in the Dust 1955 101 Johnson, Victor H. Cry Torment [© 4/14] 1955 102 Marble, M. S. Die by Night Walter Popp 1955 103 Cargoe, Richard Girl in the Red Dress [© 5/18] 1955 104 Malcolm-Smith, George Mugs, Molls and Dr. Harvey King 1955 105 Grew, William Murder Has Many Faces [© 6/14] 1955 106 Jones, George E. Trap [© 6/16] 1955 107 Mik (The Adventures of) Ferd'nand Mik 1955 108 Irish, William The Phantom Lady 1955 109 Fagaly, Al & Shorten, Harry More There Oughta Be a Law! Al Fagaly [1955] 110 Roeburt, John The Hollow Man 1955 111 Saber, Robert O. A Dame Called Murder [© 9/14] 1955 112 Ernenwein, Leslie Gun Hawk 1955 113 McCloy, Helen Unfinished Crime 1955
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114 Ronns, Edward They All Ran Away [Robert Maguire] [© 10/7] 1955 115 Marcus, A. A. Make Way for Murder [© 10/26] 1955 116 Pendleton, Ford Hell Rider George Gross [© 11/2] 1955 117 Stokes, Manning Murder Can't Wait Saul Levine [© 11/8] 1955 118 Fray, Al And Kill Once More [Saul Levine] [© 11/16] 1955 119 Gruber, Frank Mood for Murder Puhn 1956 120 Ernenwein, Leslie Texas Guns Leo Summers [© 1/24] 1956 121 Roeburt, John Tough Cop Jan 1956 122 Vance, William Homicide Lost Barye Phillips [© 2/8] 1956 123 Saber, Robert O. A Time for Murder Walter Popp [© 3/2] 1956 124 Shelley, John L. Gunpoint(!) Saul Levine [© 3/9] 1956 125 Cohen, Octavus Roy The Intruder Saul Levine, Walter Popp (bc) 1956 126 Kelston, Robert Murder's End Robert Maguire [© 3/23] 1956 127 Wade, Harrison So Lovely to Kill Barye Phillips [© 4/6] 1956 128 Martin, Chuck Two-Gun Fury 1956 129 Ward, Brad Six-Gun Heritage George Gross 1956 130 Reach, James Late Last Night 1956 131 Evans, Dean This Kill Is Mine Oliver Brabbins 1956 132 Norton, Browning & Landolf, Charles A. I Prefer Murder Saul Levine [© 6/1] 1956 133 Pendleton, Ford Gunmaster Roy Lance [© 6/1] 1956 134 Duff, James Who Dies There? Walter Popp [© 6/15] 1956 135 Baker, Samm Sinclair Murder, Very Dry Oliver Brabbins [© 8/15] 1956 (as Murder—Very Dry on cover and spine) 136 Brock, Stuart Killer's Choice Oliver Brabbins [© 9/8] 1956 137 Colter, Eli Blood on the Range 1956 138 Farris, John The Corpse Next Door Oliver Brabbins [© 9/22] 1956 139 Duff, James Some Die Young Roy Lance [© 9/29] 1956 140 Saunders, Mack Gun Trail George Gross [© 10/10] 1956 141 Ozaki, Milton Dressed to Kill Walter Popp 1956 142 Duke, Will Fair Prey Oliver Brabbins [© 10/22] 1956 143 Gregory, Dan Three Must Die! Roy Lance [© 10/29] 1956 144 Holmes, L. P. Gunman's Greed Leone 1957 145 Cassiday, Bruce While Murder Waits Al Puhn [© 1/2] 1957 146 Thompson, Gene Six-Guns Wild George Gross [© 1/22] 1957 147 Causey, James O. Killer Take All(!) Roy Lance [© 1/29] 1957 148 Powell, Richard Say It with Bullets 1956 149 Lupton, Leonard Murder Without Tears Roy Lance [© 2/18] 1957 150 Saber, Robert O. Too Young to Die Walter Popp 1957 151 Patten, Lewis B. Gun Proud Robert Stanley [© 2/28] 1957 152 Braham, Hal Call Me Deadly Walter Popp [© 3/12] 1957 153 Thurman, Steve Gun Lightning(!) 1957 154 Pendleton, Ford Outlaw Justice Leone 1957 155 Pendleton, Ford Gun Chance George Gross [© 5/8] 1957 156 Saber, Robert O. Sucker Bait [Robert Maguire] 1957 157 Pendleton, Ford Hell Rider George Gross 1957
G101 Westcott, Jan Captain for Elizabeth Barye Phillips 1952
G201 Westcott, Jan Captain for Elizabeth Barye Phillips 1953 G 202 Heckelmann, Charles N. River Queen Barton 1953
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G 203 Rice, Craig 45 Murderers 1954 (Collection of true crime stories. Reprint, Simon & Schuster, 1952. Complete.) Contents: 5 The Fall of "the House of Deuteronomy" 15 The Clue of the Owl 19 The Devil Doll 25 The Candy Kid 32 The Swamp 39 The Murderer Who Couldn't Have Done It 48 Girl Loses Boy 56 Ladies Don't Run on Their Heels 64 The Gilded Lily 73 The Force of Habit 85 A Passion for Peanuts 93 The Circe of Cumberland County 102 Witchcraft—or Murder? 110 The Case of the Murderer's Mistakes 114 Lady's Day at the Morgue 126 The Well-Liked Victim 135 The Case Without a Corpse 143 Sixty Cents Worth of Murder 150 Mr. Anonymous 158 New Love for Old 167 The Case of the Common Cold 176 One-Man Crime, Inc. 183 The Reluctant Cop 188 High-Hat Murder 193 The Case of the Red-Headed Stepmother 199 Too Lovely to Live 207 The Case of the Vengeful Ghosts 215 The Talking Cat 221 Murder the Hard Way 230 The Fatal Perfume 237 The Air-Tight Alibi 245 The Case of the Understanding Wife 249 The Drop of Blood 255 Bluebeard's Buried Treasure 262 The Case of the Woman's Intuition 267 The Sunshine Lady 273 The Deadly Dew 278 The Lovelorn Stranger 285 The Murdered Magdalen 292 Murder Divided by Two 299 Murder by Proxy 308 The Strange Case of Mabel Mayer 316 Into the Nowhere 323 Murder Without Motive 330 The Black Dahlia Case G204 Steincrohn, Peter J., M.D. How to Live with Your Heart 1954 (Omnibus containing two previously published non-fiction books about heart disease.) Contents: Heart Disease Is Curable, Doubleday, Doran, 1941 Heart Worry and Its Cure, Funk, 1951
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G205 Peacock, Max King's Rogue Saul Levine 1954 G206 Koestler, Arthur The Gladiators Saul Levine 1954 G207 McFee, William Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Saul Levine 1954 (Anthology, McBride, 1953. Mostly non-fiction.) Contents: 9 Introduction by William McFee 13 Log the Man Dead by Eugene Burdick 30 R. M. S. Titanic by Hanson W. Baldwin 49 The Raft by Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker 92 Alone in Shark Waters by John Kruse 113 Archerfish by Commander Edward L. Beach, U.S.N. 137 The Cheerful Tortoise by James Norman Hall 167 The Reluctant Hero by William McFee 183 Some "Q" Ships by "Bartimeus" 199 The Boat Journey by Sir Ernest Shackleton 244 Three Skeleton Key by George G. Toudouze 259 Rescuer Extraordinary by J. Campbell Bruce 267 The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad G208 Pei, Mario Swords for Charlemagne [Robert Maguire] 1955 G209 Clou, John The Golden Blade [Robert Maguire] 1955 G210 Thompson, Ben Gunman's Spawn [© 8/17] 1955 G-211 Westcott, Jan Captain for Elizabeth Barye Phillips 1955 G-212 O'Hara, Donn Rogue Royal [Robert Maguire] [© 1/31] 1956 G213 Koestler, Arthur The Gladiators Saul Levine 1956 G-214 Chidsey, Donald Barr Captain Bashful Barye Phillips 1956 G-215 Grey, Harry Call Me Duke Samson Pollen 1956 G-216 Erskine, John The Private Life of Helen of Troy 1956 G-217 Pizer, Laurette Eve's Daughters [© 1/7] 1957 (Anthology. First and only edition.) Contents: 9 I Knew What I Was Doing by Jerome Weidman 28 Pink May by Elizabeth Bowen 39 The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt by Mary McCarthy 90 The Darling by Anton P. Chekhov 107 The Girl on the Bus by William Sansom 125 Sun by D. H. Lawrence 150 On Time by John O'Hara 154 Passion (or the Western Room) by Yuan Chen 178 Love Affair by Henrietta Weigel 207 The Little Girl and the Wolf by James Thurber 208 Poison by Katherine Mansfield 216 The Husband's Revenge by Luigi Pirandello G-218 Prescott, John Guns of Hell Valley Roy Lance [© 2/8] 1957 G219 Pei, Mario Swords for Charlemagne [Robert Maguire] 1957 G220 Clou, John The Golden Blade [Robert Maguire] 1957 G-221 Heckelmann, Charles N. River Queen Barton 1957 G-222 O'Hara, Donn The Fair and the Bold Barye W. Phillips [© 4/21] 1957 G223 Thompson, Ben Gunman's Spawn 1957
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AUTHOR INDEX -BOOKS
Aarons, Edward S. see ps Edward Ronns Baker, Samm Sinclair (1909-1997) US series: Clark C. Clark Murder, Very Dry [Clark] (original) Graphic Books 135 1956 (as Murder—Very Dry on cover and spine) One Touch of Blood [Clark] (original) Graphic Books 97 1955 Ballard, W[illis] T[odhunter] (1903-1980) US series: Bill Lennox Dealing out Death [Lennox] (McKay, 1948, c&u) Graphic Books 18 1950 [same] Graphic Books 72 1954 Murder Can't Stop [Lennox] (McKay, 1946, c&u) Graphic Books 26 1950 [same] Graphic Books 65 1953 Bergquist, Lillian [© by Lillian Bergquist Rose] with Irving Moore Your Shot, Darling(!) (Morrow, 1948, c&u) Graphic Books 84 1954 Braham, Hal
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Ernenwein, Leslie [Charles] (1900-1961) US Gun Hawk (original) Graphic Books 44 1952 [same] Graphic Books 62 1953 [same] Graphic Books 112 1955 Texas Guns (original) Graphic Books 120 1956 Erskine, John (1879-1951) US The Private Life of Helen of Troy (Bobbs-Merril, 1925, c&u) Graphic Giant G-216 1956 Evans, Dean ps of George Kull US This Kill Is Mine (No Slightest Whisper, Abelard-Schuman, 1955) Graphic Books 131 1956 Fagaly, Al (1909-1963) US with Harry Shorten More There Oughta Be a Law! (coll, original) Graphic Books 85 1954 [same] Graphic Books 109 [1955] There Oughta Be a Law! (coll, original) Graphic Books 52 1952 [same] Graphic Books 61 1953 Farris, John [L.] (1936- ) US The Corpse Next Door (original) Graphic Books 138 1956 Fox, James M. ps of James
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Jones, George E. Trap (original) Graphic Books 106 1955 Keene, Day, [né Gunard Hjertstedt] (1904-1969) US, see also ps William Richards The Big Kiss-off (original) Graphic Books 75 1954 Framed in Guilt (Mill, 1950, c&u ) Graphic Books 51 1952 Homicidal Lady (original) Graphic Books 87 1954 If the Coffin Fits (original) Graphic Books 43 1952 Strange Witness (original) Graphic Books 58 1953 Kelston, Robert [H.] (1915-1981) Murder's End (original) Graphic Books 126 1956 Ketchum, Philip see ps Mack Saunders Knight, David ps of Richard S[cott] Prather (1921-2007) US series: Shell Scott Pattern for Murder [Scott] (original) Graphic Books 48 1952 Koestler, Arthur (1905-1983) German/UK translated by Edith Simon The Gladiators (Macmillan, 1939, c&u) Graphic Giant G206 1954 [same] Graphic Giant G213 1956 Landolf, Charles A. (1912-2002) with Browning Norton I Prefer Murder (original) Graphic Books 132 1956 Lehman, Paul E[van] (1892-1961) US Faces in the Dust (original) Graphic Books 47 1952 [same] Graphic Books 100 1955 Texas Men (Furman, 1936) Graphic Books 34 1951 [same] Graphic Books 56 1952 Vultures of Paradise Valley (mag, 1940) Graphic Books 39 1951 [same] Graphic Books 66 [1953] Lesser, Milton see ps Stephen Marlowe Loc kridge, Frances [Louise], [neé Davis] (1896-1963) US with Richard Lockridge series: Capt. Heimrich Stand up and Die [Heimrich] (Lippincott, 1953, c&u) Graphic Books 82 1954 Loc kridge, Richard [Orson] (1898-1982) US with Frances Lockridge series: Capt. Heimrich Stand up and Die [Heimrich] (Lippincott, 1953, c&u) Graphic Books 82 1954 Lupton, [William] Leonard (1907-2000) Murder Without Tears (original) Graphic Books 149 1957 MacDonald, [Allan] William Colt (1891-1968) US series: Three Mesquiteers The Singing Scorpion [Mesquiteers] (Covici, Friede, 1934, abr) Graphic Books 25 1950 [same] Graphic Books 50 1952 Malcolm-Smith, George [E.] (1901-1984) Mugs, Molls and Dr. Harvey (The Square Peg, Doubleday, 1952) Graphic Books 104 1955 Marble, M[argaret] S[harp] (1913-1970) Die by Night (Rinehart, 1947, c&u) Graphic Books 102 1955 Marcus, A[rthur] A[aron] (1904-1990) series: Peter Hunter Make Way for Murder [Hunter] (original) Graphic Books 115 1955 Post-Mark Homicide see The Widow Gay
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Walk the Bloody Boulevard [Hunter] (original) Graphic Books 35 1951 [same] Graphic Books 64 1953 The Widow Gay [Hunter] (McKay, 1948) Graphic Books 21 1950 as Post-Mark Homicide Graphic Books 67 1953 Marlowe, Stephen ps of Milton Lesser (1928-2008) US Model for Murder (original) Graphic Books 94 1955 Martin, Aylwin Lee (1894-1964) series: Matt Hughes Death for a Hussy [Hughes] (original) Graphic Books 45 1952 Martin, Chuck
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Pei, Mario [Andrew] (1901-1978) Italian/US Swords for Charlemagne (Swords of Anjou, Day, 1953, c&u) Graphic Giant G208 1955 [same] Graphic Giant G219 1957 Pendleton, Ford ps of Giff]ord] [Paul] Cheshire (1905-1973) US Gun Chance (original) Graphic Books 155 1957 Gunmaster (original) Graphic Books 133 1956 Hell Rider (original) Graphic Books 116 1955 [same] Graphic Books 157 1957 Outlaw Justice (mag, 1952) Graphic Books 88 1954 [same] Graphic Books 154 1957 Pizer, Laurette [Naomi] Eve's Daughters (anth, original) Graphic Giant G-217 1957 Powell, Richard [Pitts] (1908-1999) US Say It with Bullets (Simon & Schuster, 1953, c&u) Graphic Books 93 1954 [same] Graphic Books 148 1956 A Shot in the Dark (Simon & Schuster, 1952, abr) Graphic Books 55 1952 Prather, Richard S. see ps David Knight Prescott, John (1919- ) Guns of Hell Valley (original) Graphic Giant G-218 1957 Reach, James ( -1970) Late Last Night (Morrow, 1949, c&u) Graphic Books 70 1954 [same] Graphic Books 130 1956 Rice, Craig ps of Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig (1908-1957) US 45 Murderers (non-fict, coll, Simon & Schuster, 1952, c&u) Graphic Giant G 203 1954 Richards, William ps of Day Keene, q.v. Dead Man's Tide (original) Graphic Books 60 1953 Roeburt, John (1909-1972) US series: Johnny Devereaux, Jigger Moran Corpse on the Town [Moran] (original) Graphic Books 27 1950 The Hollow Man [Devereaux] (Simon & Schuster, 1954, c&u) Graphic Books 110 1955 There Are Dead Men in Manhattan [Moran] (Mystery House, 1946, abr) Graphic Books 42 1951 Tough Cop [Devereaux] (Simon & Schuster, 1949, c&u) Graphic Books 22 1950 [same] Graphic Books 38 1951 [same] Graphic Books 63 1953 [same] Graphic Books 121 1956 Rohmer, Sax ps of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959) UK Hangover House (Random, 1949) Graphic Books 32 1951 [same] Graphic Books 78 1954 Ronns, Edward ps of Edward S[idney] Aarons (1916-1975) US Dark Destiny (original) Graphic Books 59 1953 The Net (original) Graphic Books 68 1953 Say It with Murder (original) Graphic Books 76 1954 They All Ran Away (original) Graphic Books 114 1955 Runyon, [Alfred] Damon (1880-1946) US Runyon First and Last (coll, Lippincott, 1949, abr) Graphic Books 30 1951 [same] Graphic Books 69 1953 Saber, Robert O. ps of Milton K. Ozaki, q.v. series: Carl Good , Max Keene A Dame Called Murder [Keene] (original) Graphic Books 111 1955 Sucker Bait [Good] (original) Graphic Books 99 1955 [same] Graphic Books 156 1957 A Time for Murder [Keene] (original) Graphic Books 123 1956
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Too Young to Die [Good] (original) Graphic Books 90 1954 [same] Graphic Books 150 1957 Saunders, Mack ps of Philip [L.] Ketchum (1902-1969) US Gun Trail (original) Graphic Books 140 1956 Shelley, John L[ascola] (1907-1972) US Gunpoint(!) (original) Graphic Books 124 1956 Shorten, Harry (1914-1991) US with Al Fagaly More There Oughta Be a Law! (coll, original) Graphic Books 85 1954 [same] Graphic Books 109 [1955] There Oughta Be a Law! (coll, original) Graphic Books 52 1952 [same] Graphic Books 61 1953 Simon, Edith (1917-1982) German/UK translator The Gladiators by Arthur Koestler (Macmillan, 1939, c&u) Graphic Giant G206 1954 Steincrohn, Peter J[oseph], M.D. (1899-1986) US How to Live with Your Heart (omnibus, original) Graphic Giant G204 1954 Stokes, Manning (Lee) (1911-1976) US The Crooked Circle (original) Graphic Books 40 1951 as Too Many Murderers Graphic Books 98 1955 Murder Can't Wait (original) Graphic Books 117 1955 Too Many Murderers see The Crooked Circle Thompson, Ben ps of John B[urton] Thompson (1913- ) Gunman's Spawn (original) Graphic Giant G210 1955 [same] Graphic Giant G223 1957 Thompson, Gene ps of Giles Alfred Lutz (1910-1994) US Six-Guns Wild (original) Graphic Books 146 1957 Thurman, Steve ps of Frank P. Castle (1910-1994) US Gun Lightning(!) (original) Graphic Books 96 1955 [same] Graphic Books 153 1957 Trimble, Louis see ps Stuart Brock Van Dine, S. S. ps of Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939) US series: Philo Vance The Scarab Murder Case [Vance] (Scribner's, 1930, abr) Graphic Books 89 1954 Vance, William [E.] (1911-1986) US Homicide Lost (original) Graphic Books 122 1956 Wade, Bob
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Whelton, Paul [Francis] (1894-1953) US series: Garry Dean Call the Lady Indiscreet [Dean] (Lippincott, 1946, abr) Graphic Books 17 1949 [same] Graphic Books 95 1954 Flash—Hold for Murder [Dean] ([Death and the Devil], Lippincott, 1944, c&u) Graphic Books 13 1949 In Comes Death [Dean] (Lippincott, 1951, abr) Graphic Books 49 1952 Lures of Death [Dean] (Angels Are Painted Fair, Lippincott, 1947, abr) Graphic Books 19 1950 Pardon My Blood [Dean] (Lippincott, 1950, abr) Graphic Books 37 1951 [same] Graphic Books 71 1954 Uninvited Corpse [Dean] (Women Are Skin Deep, Lippincott, 1948, abr) Graphic Books 24 1950 Whittington, Harry [Benjamin] (1915-1989 ) US Call Me Killer (original) Graphic Books 36 1951 Mourn the Hangman (original) Graphic Books 46 1952 Murder Is My Mistress (original) Graphic Books 41 1951 Wilmer, Dal e ps of Bill Miller, q.v. & Robert Wade, q.v Memo for Murder (original) Graphic Books 29 1951 Woolrich, Cornell see ps William Irish
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GRAPHIC BOOKS
AUTHOR INDEX - CONTENTS
Baldwin, Hanson W[eightman] (1903-1991) US R. M. S. Titanic NF Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 “Bartimeus” ps of Lewis Ritchie (1886-1967) UK Some "Q" Ships NF Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Beach, Commander Edward L[atimer], [Jr.], U.S.N. (1918-2002) US Archerfish NF Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Bowen, Elizabeth [Dorothea] [Cole] (1899-1973) UK Pink May Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Bruce, J[ohn] Campbell (1906-1996) US Rescuer Extraordinary NF Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Burdick, Eugene [L.] (1918-1965) US Log the Man Dead Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Chekhov, Anton P. [ ] (1860-1904) Russian translated by Thomas Seltzer The Darling Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Chen Yuan retold by Lin Yutang Passion (or the Western Room) Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Conrad, Joseph ps of Josef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski (1857-1924) Polish/UK The Secret Sharer Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Hall , James Norman (1887-1951) US series: Doctor Digbody The Cheerful Tortoise [Digbody] Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Irish, William ps of Cornell [George] [Hopley-]Woolrich (1903-1968) US The Blue Ribbon Dilemma of the Dead Lady Graphic Books 20 Boy with Body Deadly Night Call Graphic Books 31 Deadly Night Call Deadly Night Call Graphic Books 31 Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair Deadly Night Call Graphic Books 31 Dilemma of the Dead Lady Dilemma of the Dead Lady Graphic Books 20 The Dog with the Wooden Leg Dilemma of the Dead Lady Graphic Books 20 Hot Towel Dilemma of the Dead Lady Graphic Books 20 Johnny on the Spot Deadly Night Call Graphic Books 31 The Lie Dilemma of the Dead Lady Graphic Books 20 Momentum Deadly Night Call Graphic Books 31 The Room with Something Wrong Deadly Night Call Graphic Books 31 Subway Dilemma of the Dead Lady Graphic Books 20 Kruse, John (1919- ) UK Alone in Shark Waters NF Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Lawrence, D[avid] H[erbert] [Richards] (1885-1930) UK Sun Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Lin Yutang (1895-1976) Chinese/US retold from Yuan Chen Passion (or the Western Room) Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Mansfield, Katherine ps of Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp (1888-1923) NZ Poison Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Mc Carthy, Mary [Therese] (1912-1989) US The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217
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McFee, William [Morley] [Punshon] (1881-1966) UK/US Introduction Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 The Reluctant Hero NF Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 O'Hara, John [Henry] (1905-1970) US On Time Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Pettinati, Michael translator The Husband's Revenge by Luigi Pirandello Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Pirandello, Luigi (1886-1974) Italian translated by Michael Pettinati The Husband's Revenge Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Rice, Craig ps of Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig (1908-1957) US The Air-Tight Alibi 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Black Dahlia Case 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Bluebeard's Buried Treasure 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Candy Kid 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Case of the Common Cold 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Case of the Murderer's Mistakes 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Case of the Red-Headed Stepmother 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Case of the Understanding Wife 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Case of the Vengeful Ghosts 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Case of the Woman's Intuition 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Case Without a Corpse 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Circe of Cumberland County 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Clue of the Owl 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Deadly Dew 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Devil Doll 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Drop of Blood 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Fall of "the House of Deuteronomy" 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Fatal Perfume 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Force of Habit 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Gilded Lily 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Girl Loses Boy 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 High-Hat Murder 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Into the Nowhere 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Ladies Don't Run on Their Heels 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Lady's Day at the Morgue 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Lovelorn Stranger 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Mr. Anonymous 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Murder by Proxy 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Murder Divided by Two 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Murder the Hard Way 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Murder Without Motive 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Murdered Magdalen 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Murderer Who Couldn't Have Done It 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 New Love for Old 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 One-Man Crime, Inc. 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 A Passion for Peanuts 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Reluctant Cop 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Sixty Cents Worth of Murder 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Strange Case of Mabel Mayer 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Sunshine Lady 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Swamp 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203
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The Talking Cat 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Too Lovely to Live 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 The Well-Liked Victim 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Witchcraft—or Murder? 45 Murderers Graphic Books G 203 Rickenbacker, Captain Edward V[ernon] (1890-1973) US The Raft NF-ex Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Runyon, [Alfred] Damon (1880-1946) US 100 Percent Man Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 As Between Friends Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 As Far as a Man Possibly Can Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 At Dead Mule Crossing Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Bad Bud and the Reverend Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Big Boy Blues Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 A Big Strong Man Six Feet Two Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Blonde Mink Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 A Dangerous Guy Indeed Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 The Defense of Strikerville Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Dumb Dan, the Wooden Indian Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Fat Fallon Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 A Great Hand for Playing Jokes Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 In One Ear— Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 My Father Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Nellie Morgan Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 The Old Men of the Mountain Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Old New Year's Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Old Simp Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 A Right Good-Looking Gal Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 A Slight Hitch in Uncle Tom's Cabin Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 A Story Without a Moral Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Two Men Named Collins Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 A Very Married Man Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 A Very Touching Story to Some Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 What Do You Think They See? Runyon First and Last Graphic Books 30 Sansom, William (1912-1976) UK The Girl on the Bus Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Seltzer, Thomas (1875-1943) Russian/US translator The Darling by Anton P. Chekhov Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Shackleton, Sir Ernest [Henry] (1874-1922) UK The Boat Journey NF Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Steincrohn, Peter J[oseph], M.D. (1899-1986) US Heart Disease Is Curable NF How to Live with Your Heart Graphic Giant G204 Heart Worry and Its Cure NF How to Live with Your Heart Graphic Giant G204 Thurber, James [Grover] (1894-1961) US The Little Girl and the Wolf VI Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Toudouze, George G. French Three Skeleton Key Great Sea Stories of Modern Times Graphic Giant G207 Weidman, Jerome (1913-1998) US I Knew What I Was Doing Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217 Weigel, Henrietta, [née Lipkin] (1906-1981) US Love Affair Eve's Daughters Graphic Giant G-217
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GRAPHIC BOOKS
TITLE INDEX
45 Murderers Craig Rice "100 Percent Man" Damon Runyon (The Adventures of) Ferd'nand Mik "The Air-Tight Alibi" Craig Rice "Alone in Shark Waters" John Kruse And Kill Once More Al Fray "Archerfish" Commander Edward L. Beach, U.S.N. "As Between Friends" Damon Runyon "As Far as a Man Possibly Can" Damon Runyon "At Dead Mule Crossing" Damon Runyon "Bad Bud and the Reverend" Damon Runyon "Big Boy Blues" Damon Runyon The Big Kiss-off Day Keene "A Big Strong Man Six Feet Two" Damon Runyon "The Black Dahlia Case" Craig Rice "Blonde Mink" Damon Runyon Blood on the Range Eli Colter "The Blue Ribbon" William Irish "Bluebeard's Buried Treasure" Craig Rice "The Boat Journey" Sir Ernest Shackleton "Boy with Body" William Irish Call Me Deadly Hal Braham Call Me Duke Harry Grey Call Me Killer Harry Whittington Call the Lady Indiscreet Paul Whelton "The Candy Kid " Craig Rice Captain Bashful Donald Barr Chidsey Captain for Elizabeth Jan Westcott "The Case of the Common Cold" Craig Rice "The Case of the Murderer's Mistakes" Craig Rice "The Case of the Red-Headed Stepmother" Craig Rice "The Case of the Understanding Wife" Craig Rice "The Case of the Vengeful Ghosts" Craig Rice "The Case of the Woman's Intuition" Craig Rice "The Case Without a Corpse" Craig Rice "The Cheerful Tortoise" James Norman Hall "The Circe of Cumberland County" Craig Rice "The Clue of the Owl" Craig Rice The Corpse Next Door John Farris Corpse on the Town John Roeburt The Crooked Circle Manning Lee Stokes Cry Torment Victor H. Johnson A Dame Called Murder Robert O. Saber "A Dangerous Guy Indeed" Damon Runyon Dark Destiny Edward Ronns "The Darling" Anton P. Chekhov Dead Man's Tide William Richards Deadline at Dawn William Irish "The Deadly Dew" Craig Rice
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Deadly Night Call William Irish "Deadly Night Call" William Irish The Deadly Pick-up Milton K. Ozaki Dealing out Death W. T. Ballard Death Commits Bigamy James M. Fox Death for a Hussy Aylwin E. Martin "Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair" William Irish "The Defense of Strikerville" Damon Runyon "The Devil Doll" Craig Rice Die by Night M. S. Marble Dilemma of the Dead Lady William Irish "Dilemma of the Dead Lady" William Irish "The Dog with the Wooden Leg" William Irish Dressed to Kill Milton K. Ozaki "The Drop of Blood" Craig Rice "Dumb Dan, the Wooden Indian" Damon Runyon The Dummy Murder Case Milton Ozaki Eve's Daughters Laurette Pizer Faces in the Dust Paul E. Lehman The Fair and the Bold Donn O'Hara Fair Prey Will Duke "The Fall of ‘the House of Deuteronomy’" Craig Rice "Fat Fallon" Damon Runyon The Fatal Cast Curtiss T. Gardner "The Fatal Perfume" Craig Rice Flash—Hold for Murder Paul Whelton "The Force of Habit" Craig Rice 45 Murderers Craig Rice Framed in Guilt Day Keene "The Gilded Lily" Craig Rice Girl in the Red Dress Richard Cargoe "Girl Loses Boy" Craig Rice "The Girl on the Bus " William Sansom The Gladiators Arthur Koestler The Golden Blade John Clou "A Great Hand for Playing Jokes" Damon Runyon Great Sea Stories of Modern Times William McFee Gun Chance Ford Pendleton Gun Hawk Leslie Ernenwein Gun Lightning(!) Steve Thurman Gun Proud Lewis B. Patten Gun Trail Mack Saunders Gunman's Greed L. P. Holmes Gunman's Spawn Ben Thompson Gunmaster Ford Pendleton Gunpoint(!) John L. Shelley Guns of Hell Valley John Prescott Handle with Fear Thomas B. Dewey Hangover House Sax Rohmer "Heart Disease Is Curable" Peter J. Steincrohn, M.D. "Heart Worry and Its Cure" Peter J. Steincrohn, M.D. Hell Rider Ford Pendleton "High-Hat Murder" Craig Rice
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The Hollow Man John Roeburt Homicidal Lady Day Keene Homicide Lost William Vance "Hot Towel" William Irish How to Live with Your Heart Peter J. Steincrohn, M.D. "The Husband's Revenge" Luigi Pirandello "I Knew What I Was Doing" Jerome Weidman I Prefer Murder Browning Norton & Charles A. Landolf If I Live to Dine Hillary Waugh If the Coffin Fits Day Keene In Comes Death Paul Whelton "In One Ear—" Damon Runyon "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew" Damon Runyon "Into the Nowhere" Craig Rice "Introduction" William McFee The Intruder Octavus Roy Cohen "Johnny on the Spot" William Irish Killer Take All(!) James O. Causey Killer's Choice Stuart Brock King's Rogue Max Peacock "Ladies Don't Run on Their Heels" Craig Rice "Lady's Day at the Morgue" Craig Rice Late Last Night James Reach "The Lie" William Irish "The Little Girl and the Wolf " James Thurber "Log the Man Dead" Eugene Burdick "Love Affair" Henrietta Weigel "The Lovelorn Stranger" Craig Rice Lures of Death Paul Whelton Make Way for Murder A. A. Marcus The Man from Bar-20 Clarence E. Mulford "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" Mary McCarthy Memo for Murder Dale Wilmer "Mr. Anonymous" Craig Rice Model for Murder Stephen Marlowe "Momentum" William Irish Mood for Murder Frank Gruber More There Oughta Be a Law! Al Fagaly & Harry Shorten Mourn the Hangman Harry Whittington Mugs, Molls and Dr. Harvey George Malcolm-Smith "Murder by Proxy" Craig Rice Murder Can't Stop W. T. Ballard Murder Can't Wait Manning Stokes "Murder Divided by Two" Craig Rice Murder Has Many Faces William Grew Murder Is My Mistress Harry Whittington Murder—Queen High Bob Wade & Bill Miller "Murder the Hard Way" Craig Rice Murder, Very Dry Samm Sinclair Baker "Murder Without Motive" Craig Rice Murder Without Tears Leonard Lupton Murder's End Robert Kelston The Murdered Magdalen" Craig Rice
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"The Murderer Who Couldn't Have Done It" Craig Rice "My Father" Damon Runyon "Nellie Morgan" Damon Runyon The Net Edward Ronns "New Love for Old" Craig Rice "The Old Men of the Mountain" Damon Runyon "Old New Year's" Damon Runyon "Old Simp" Damon Runyon "On Time" John O'Hara "100 Percent Man" Damon Runyon One Touch of Blood Samm Sinclair Baker "One-Man Crime, Inc." Craig Rice Outlaw Justice Ford Pendleton Pardon My Blood Paul Whelton "A Passion for Peanuts" Craig Rice "Passion (or the Western Room)" Yuan Chen Pattern for Murder David Knight The Phantom Lady William Irish "Pink May" Elizabeth Bowen "Poison" Katherine Mansfield Post-Mark Homicide A. A. Marcus The Private Life of Helen of Troy John Erskine "R. M. S. Titanic " Hanson W. Baldwin "The Raft" Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker "The Reluctant Cop" Craig Rice "The Reluctant Hero" William McFee "Rescuer Extraordinary" J. Campbell Bruce "A Right Good-Looking Gal" Damon Runyon River Queen Charles N. Heckelmann Rogue Royal Donn O'Hara "The Room with Something Wrong" William Irish Runyon First and Last Damon Runyon Say It with Bullets Richard Powell Say It with Murder Edward Ronns The Scarab Murder Case S. S. Van Dine "The Secret Sharer" Joseph Conrad A Shot in the Dark Richard Powell The Singing Scorpion William Colt MacDonald Six-Gun Heritage Brad Ward Six-Guns Wild Gene Thompson "Sixty Cents Worth of Murder" Craig Rice "A Slight Hitch in Uncle Tom's Cabin" Damon Runyon So Lovely to Kill Harrison Wade Some Die Young James Duff "Some "Q" Ships" "Bartimeus" Stand up and Die Richard & Frances Lockridge "A Story Without a Moral" Damon Runyon "The Strange Case of Mabel Mayer" Craig Rice Strange Witness Day Keene "Subway" William Irish Sucker Bait Robert O. Saber "Sun" D. H. Lawrence "The Sunshine Lady" Craig Rice
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"The Swamp" Craig Rice Swords for Charlemagne Mario Pei "The Talking Cat" Craig Rice Tex Clarence E. Mulford Texas Guns Leslie Ernenwein Texas Men Paul E. Lehman Texas Pride Chuck Martin There Are Dead Men in Manhattan John Roeburt There Oughta Be a Law! Al Fagaly & Harry Shorten They All Ran Away Edward Ronns This Kill Is Mine Dean Evans Three Must Die! Dan Gregory "Three Skeleton Key" George G. Toudouze A Time for Murder Robert O. Saber "Too Lovely to Live" Craig Rice Too Many Murderers Manning Lee Stokes Too Young to Die Robert O. Saber Tough Cop John Roeburt Trap George E. Jones "Two Men Named Collins" Damon Runyon Two-Gun Fury Chuck Martin Unfinished Crime Helen McCloy Uninvited Corpse Paul Whelton "A Very Married Man" Damon Runyon "A Very Touching Story to Some " Damon Runyon Vultures of Paradise Valley Paul E. Lehman Walk the Bloody Boulevard A. A. Marcus "The Well-Liked Victim" Craig Rice "What Do You Think They See?" Damon Runyon While Murder Waits Bruce Cassiday Who Dies There? James Duff The Widow Gay A. A. Marcus "Witchcraft—or Murder?" Craig Rice Your Shot, Darling(!) Lillian Bergquist & Irving Moore
Original Titles not used on Graphic Books editions
Angels Are Painted Fair Paul Whelton Bloody Saddles L. P. Holmes The Blue Ribbon William Irish Bones Don't Lie Curtiss T. Gardner A Caravan to Camul John Clou Death and the Devil Paul Whelton The Lonesome Badger Frank Gruber Love Can Be Dangerous Octavus Roy Cohen Madam Will Not Dine Tonight Hillary Waugh No Slightest Whisper Dean Evans The Rawhider Charles N. Heckelmann Somebody on the Phone William Irish The Square Peg George Malcolm-Smith Swords of Anjou Mario Pei Women Are Skin Deep Paul Whelton
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GRAPHIC BOOKS
ARTIST INDEX
Covers:
Barton, [Harry] (1908-2001) US Graphic Giant G 202 (w/a), River Queen by Charles N. Heckelmann G-221 (w/a) (altered) [same] Brabbins, Oliver [Gilmore] (1912-1965) UK Graphic Books 131 (+bc) This Kill Is Mine by Dean Evans Graphic Books 135 (+bc) Murder, Very Dry by Samm Sinclair Baker Graphic Books 136 (+bc) Killer's Choice by Stuart Brock Graphic Books 138 (+bc) The Corpse Next Door by John Farris Graphic Books 142 (+bc) Fair Prey by Will Duke Fagaly, Al (1909-1963) US Graphic Books 52, 61 (+bc) There Oughta Be a Law! by Al Fagaly & Harry Shorten Graphic Books 85, 109 (+bc) More There Oughta Be a Law! by Al Fagaly & Harry Shorten Gross, George (1909-2003) US Graphic Books 116, 157 (+bc) Hell Rider by Ford Pendleton Graphic Books 129 (+bc) Six-Gun Heritage by Brad Ward Graphic Books 140 (+bc) Gun Trail by Mack Saunders Graphic Books 146 (+bc) Six-Guns Wild by Gene Thompson Graphic Books 155 (+bc) Gun Chance by Ford Pendleton King, [Warren] (1916-1978) US Graphic Books 104 (+bc) Mugs, Molls and Dr. Harvey by George Malcolm-Smith Lance, R oy Graphic Books 133 (+bc) Gunmaster by Ford Pendleton Graphic Books 139 (+bc) Some Die Young by James Duff Graphic Books 143 (+bc) Three Must Die! by Dan Gregory Graphic Books 147 (+bc) Killer Take All(!) by James O. Causey Graphic Books 149 (+bc) Murder Without Tears by Leonard Lupton Graphic Giant G-218 (w/a) Guns of Hell Valley by John Prescott Leone, [John] (1929- ) Graphic Books 77, 144 (+bc) Gunman's Greed by L. P. Holmes Graphic Books 88, 154 (+bc) Outlaw Justice by Ford Pendleton Levine, Saul (1915- ) US Graphic Books 82 Stand up and Die by Richard & Frances Lockridge Graphic Books 117 (+bc) Murder Can't Wait by Manning Stokes Graphic Books 118 (+bc) And Kill Once More by Al Fray Graphic Books 124 (+bc) Gunpoint(!) by John L. Shelley Graphic Books 125 The Intruder by Octavus Roy Cohen Graphic Books 132 (+bc) I Prefer Murder by Browning Norton & Charles A. Landolf Graphic Giant G205 (w/a) King's Rogue by Max Peacock Graphic Giant G206, G213 (w/a) The Gladiators by Arthur Koestler Graphic Giant G207 (w/a) Great Sea Stories of Modern Times by William McFee Maguire, Robert (1921-2005) Graphic Books 99, 156 Sucker Bait by Robert O. Saber Graphic Books 114 (+bc) They All Ran Away by Edward Ronns Graphic Books 126 (+bc) Murder's End by Robert Kelston Graphic Giant G208, G219 (w/a) Swords for Charlemagne by Mario Pei Graphic Giant G209, G220 (w/a) The Golden Blade by John Clou Graphic Giant G-212 (w/a) Rogue Royal by Donn O'Hara
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Marchetti, [Lou] (1920-1992) Italian/US Graphic Books 76 Say It with Murder by Edward Ronns Mik ps of Henning Dahl Mikkelsen (1915-1982) Danish/US Graphic Books 107 (+bc) (The Adventures of) Ferd'nand by Mik Phillips, Barye (W.) (1909-1969) Graphic Books 122 (+bc) Homicide Lost by William Vance Graphic Books 127 (+bc) So Lovely to Kill by Harrison Wade Graphic Giant G101, G201, G-211 (w/a) Captain for Elizabeth by Jan Westcott Graphic Giant G-214 (w/a) Captain Bashful by Donald Barr Chidsey Graphic Giant G-222 (w/a) The Fair and the Bold by Donn O'Hara Pollen, Samson (+bc) Graphic Giant G-215 Call Me Duke by Harry Grey Popp, Walter (1920- ) US Graphic Books 72 Dealing out Death by W. T. Ballard Graphic Books 79, 141 Dressed to Kill by Milton Ozaki Graphic Books 90, 150 Too Young to Die by Robert O. Saber Graphic Books 94 (+bc) Model for Murder by Stephen Marlowe Graphic Books 102 (+bc) Die by Night by M. S. Marble Graphic Books 123 (+bc) A Time for Murder by Robert O. Saber Graphic Books 125 (bc) The Intruder by Octavus Roy Cohen Graphic Books 134 (+bc) Who Dies There? By James Duff Graphic Books 152 (+bc) Call Me Deadly by Hal Braham Ross, Clyde Graphic Books 98 (+bc) Too Many Murderers by Manning Lee Stokes Puhn, Al[fred] (1911-1992) (photos) Graphic Books 119 Mood for Murder by Frank Gruber Graphic Books 145 (+bc) While Murder Waits by Bruce Cassiday Stanley, Robert (1918-1996) US Graphic Books 151 (+bc) Gun Proud by Lewis B. Patten Summers, Leo R[amon] (1925-1985) US Graphic Books 86 (+bc) Texas Pride by Chuck Martin Graphic Books 120 (+bc) Texas Guns by Leslie Ernenwein
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Graphic Books 75 The Big Kiss-off by Day Keene Graphic Books 83 (+bc) The Fatal Cast by Curtiss T. Gardner
Unidentified Graphic Books 11, 54 Murder—Queen High by Bob Wade & Bill Miller Graphic Books 12 If I Live to Dine by Hillary Waugh Graphic Books 13 Flash—Hold for Murder by Paul Whelton Graphic Books 14 Death Commits Bigamy by James M. Fox Graphic Books 15, 28, 53, 91 Tex by Clarence E. Mulford Graphic Books 16 Deadline at Dawn by William Irish Graphic Books 17, 95 (altered) Call the Lady Indiscreet by Paul Whelton Graphic Books 18 Dealing out Death by W. T. Ballard Graphic Books 19 Lures of Death by Paul Whelton Graphic Books 20 Dilemma of the Dead Lady by William Irish Graphic Books 21, 67 The Widow Gay / Post-Mark Homicide by A. A. Marcus
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Graphic Books 22, 38, 63, 121 Tough Cop by John Roeburt Graphic Books 23 The Man from Bar-20 by Clarence E. Mulford Graphic Books 24 Uninvited Corpse by Paul Whelton Graphic Books 25, 50 The Singing Scorpion by William Colt MacDonald Graphic Books 26, 65 Murder Can't Stop by W. T. Ballard Graphic Books 27 Corpse on the Town by John Roeburt Graphic Books 29 Memo for Murder by Dale Wilmer Graphic Books 30, 69 Runyon First and Last by Damon Runyon Graphic Books 31, 81 Deadly Night Call by William Irish Graphic Books 32, 78 Hangover House by Sax Rohmer Graphic Books 33 The Dummy Murder Case by Milton K. Ozaki Graphic Books 34, 56 Texas Men by Paul E. Lehman Graphic Books 35, 64 Walk the Bloody Boulevard by A. A. Marcus Graphic Books 36 Call Me Killer by Harry Whittington Graphic Books 37, 71 Pardon My Blood by Paul Whelton Graphic Books 39, 66 Vultures of Paradise Valley by Paul E. Lehman Graphic Books 40 The Crooked Circle by Manning Lee Stokes Graphic Books 41 Murder Is My Mistress by Harry Whittington Graphic Books 42 There Are Dead Men in Manhattan by John Roeburt Graphic Books 43 If the Coffin Fits by Day Keene Graphic Books 44, 62, 112 Gun Hawk by Leslie Ernenwein Graphic Books 45 Death for a Hussy by Aylwin E. Martin Graphic Books 46 Mourn the Hangman by Harry Whittington Graphic Books 47, 100 Faces in the Dust by Paul E. Lehman Graphic Books 48 Pattern for Murder by David Knight Graphic Books 49 In Comes Death by Paul Whelton Graphic Books 51 Framed in Guilt by Day Keene Graphic Books 55 A Shot in the Dark by Richard Powell Graphic Books 57, 92 The Deadly Pick-up by Milton K. Ozaki Graphic Books 58 Strange Witness by Day Keene Graphic Books 59 Dark Destiny by Edward Ronns Graphic Books 60 Dead Man's Tide by William Richards Graphic Books 68 The Net by Edward Ronns Graphic Books 70, 130 Late Last Night by James Reach Graphic Books 73 Handle with Fear by Thomas B. Dewey Graphic Books 74, 128 Two-Gun Fury by Chuck Martin Graphic Books 80, 137 (+bc) Blood on the Range by Eli Colter Graphic Books 84 Your Shot, Darling(!) by Lillian Bergquist & Irving Moore Graphic Books 87 Homicidal Lady by Day Keene Graphic Books 89 (+bc) The Scarab Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine Graphic Books 93, (+bc) 148 Say It with Bullets by Richard Powell Graphic Books 96, 153 (+bc) Gun Lightning(!) by Steve Thurman Graphic Books 97 One Touch of Blood by Samm Sinclair Baker Graphic Books 101 (+bc) Cry Torment by Victor H. Johnson Graphic Books 103 (+bc) Girl in the Red Dress by Richard Cargoe Graphic Books 105 (+bc) Murder Has Many Faces by William Grew Graphic Books 106 (+bc) Trap by George E. Jones Graphic Books 108 (+bc) The Phantom Lady by William Irish Graphic Books 110 (+bc) The Hollow Man by John Roeburt Graphic Books 111 (+bc) A Dame Called Murder by Robert O. Saber Graphic Books 113 (+bc) Unfinished Crime by Helen McCloy Graphic Books 115 (+bc) Make Way for Murder by A. A. Marcus Graphic Giant G 203 (w/a) 45 Murderers by Craig Rice
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Graphic Giant G210, G223 (w/a) Gunman's Spawn by Ben Thompson Graphic Giant G-216 (w/a) The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine Graphic Giant G-217 (w/a) Eve's Daughters by Laurette Pizer
Typographical cover:
Graphic Giant G204 How to Live with Your Heart by Peter J. Steincrohn, M.D.
Interior art:
Fagaly, Al (1909-1963) US cartoons Graphic Books 52, 61 There Oughta Be a Law! by Al Fagaly & Harry Shorten Graphic Books 85, 109 More There Oughta Be a Law! by Al Fagaly & Harry Shorten Mik ps of Henning Dahl Mikkelsen ( -1982) Danish/US cartoons Graphic Books 107 (The Adventures of) Ferd'nand by Mik Rose, Carl (1903 – 1971) US illustrations - reprinted from hardcover edition Graphic Books 104 Mugs, Molls and Dr. Harvey by George Malcolm-Smith
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