Showing posts with label noir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label noir. Show all posts

9.30.2013

What is it about brides and bottles? Or: why didn't she publish under her own name?
Anthony Gilbert was actually the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson, who was an English crime writer. Malleson also wrote fiction using the pen name Anne Meredith,.









Set of 2 mysteries by Anthony Gilbert. (Lucy Beatrice Malleson)

The Innocent Bottle. Bantam 851. 1950.  (I love this one!)

Murder Cheats the Bride. Bantam 138. 1948. Cover art by Casimer Norwaish using model Helen Tynan. His first cover for Bantam.
What is it about murder and water

front covers

detail. Cover art by Denver Gillen.

detail. Cover art is a photograph, reprinted on the back in black and white.


Back cover, Murder on the Purple Water
Back cover, The Girl on the Lonely Beach
Fred J. Cook. The Girl on the Lonely Beach. Ninth in a Series of Classic Murder Trials. Gold Medal 431. 1st printing 1954.

Frances Crane. Murder on the Purple Water. Bantam 874. 1951.

9.27.2013

yet even more pulp fiction. 2 beauties.

front cover

back cover

front cover

back cover
Samm Sinclair Baker. One Touch of Blood. Graphic Mystery. 1955.
William Ard. You Can't Stop Me. Popular Library 526. 1952.
still yet more pulp fiction: Lolita noir by Gil Brewer






Gil Brewer. Sugar. Avon Original T355. 1959
"       "          Little Tramp. Crest Book 173. 1958.

Read about Brewer.
still more pulp fiction: Ace Double Novel






John Trinian. Scratch a Thief / Chester Warwick. My Pal, The Killer. Ace Double Novels F 107. 1961.
yet more pulp fiction: suckers and temptresses







Robert O. Saber, Sucker Bait. Graphic Mystery 99. 1955.
Robert B. Sinclair. The Eleventh House. Pocket Book 881. 1951. (cover by George Erickson)
even more pulp fiction: the condemned by virtue of her very address series







Albert Conroy. Murder in Room 13. Gold Medal Book 806. 1st Printing 1958.
Harold R. Daniels. The Girl in 304. Dell First Edition A112. 1956.
Mel Heimer. The Girl in Murder Flat. Gold Medal Book 458. 1st Printing 1955.



7.05.2013

more pulp fiction


Erle Stanley Gardner 
most are Perry Mason mysteries.

the case of the golddigger's purse. pocket books 2812. 7th printing 1956.
the case of the fiery fingers. pocket books 1089. 3rd printing 1956.
the case of the borrowed brunette (2 different covers). pocket books 856. 1st printing 1952, 5th printing, 1953.
the case of the counterfeit eye (2 different covers). pocket books 157, 22nd printing, 1954. pocket books 50306, 1965.
the DA breaks a seal. pocket books 869. 1st printing 1952.
the case of the turning tide. pocket books 544. 5th printing 1949.
the case of the rolling bones. pocket books 2464. 13th printing 1955
the case of the lazy lover. pocket books 909. 1st printing 1952
the case of the hesitant hostess. pocket books 1127. 2nd printing 1956
the case of the musical cow. pocket books 1063. 1st printing 1955
the case of the sleepwalker's niece. pocket books 277. 15th printing 1955









 and
cats prowl at night (gardner writing as AA Fair). Dell book 899. No date.
gold comes in bricks (gardner writing as AA Fair). Dell book 836. (missing title, copyright pages)