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Dell Books


Folder: U.S. Book Publishers

David Dodge - The Red Tassel

24 Nov 2009 202
First published by Random House (hardback) in 1950. This paperback edition published by Dell (565) in 1952. Cover art by Robert Stanley.

Donald Hamilton - Murder Twice Told

30 Nov 2009 194
Published by Dell (577) in 1950. Cover art by Robert Stanley.

Anthony Boucher - Rocket to the Morgue

17 Dec 2009 254
First published as a Phantom Mystery in 1942 under Boucher's pseudonym of H.H. Holmes. This edition published by Dell (591) in 1952. Cover art by Robert Stanley.

David Dodge - To Catch a Thief

18 Feb 2016 1 273
Forst published in hardback by Random House in 1951. This paperback edition published by Dell (658) in 1952. Cover art by Mike Ludlow

George Hopley - Night Has a Thousand Eyes

17 Dec 2009 264
First published by Rinehart & Co. (hardback) in 1945. This paperback edition published by Dell (679) is circa 1953. George Hopley (and William Irish) was a pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich. Cover art by Tommy Shoemaker.

A. E. van Vogt - Slan

18 May 2018 2 228
First published in the U.S. in hardback by Arkham House in 1946, with a revised edition pulished by Simon & Schuster in 1951. This paperback edition published by Dell (696) in 1953. Cover art is uncredited, but online I've seen it credited to both Richard Powers and Robert Stanley.

William Campbell Gault - The Bloody Bokhara

06 Dec 2009 291
First published by E.P. Dutton & Co. (hardback) in 1952. This undated paperback edition published by Dell (746) is circa 1953. Cover art by Griffith Foxley.

Bruno Fischer - The Spider Lily

17 Feb 2010 207
First published by David McKay Co. (hardback) in 1946. This paperback edition published by Dell (752) is undated but is circa 1954. Cover art by Griffith Foxley.

Blair Treynor - Silver Doll

11 Oct 2013 244
First published in hardback by Henry Holt & Co. in 1952. This paperback edition published by Dell (762) is undated but is circa 1954. Cover art by Stanley Borack.

Allan Barnard (edited by) - The Harlot Killer

26 May 2015 1 344
First published in hardback by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1953. This paperback edition published by Dell (797) in 1954. Thirteen stories, fact and fiction, concerning Jack the Ripper. Cover art by Bill George.

George Harmon Coxe - Inland Passage

15 Jul 2017 1 273
First published in hardback by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. in 1949. This first paperback edition published by Dell (799) is undated but is circa 1954. Cover art by Carl Bobertz.

Bruno Fischer - The Pigskin Bag

21 Jun 2010 225
First published by Ziff-Davis (hardback) in 1946. This paperback edition published by Dell (817) is undated but is circa 1955. Cover art by Bill George.

William Campbell Gault - Blood on the Boards

31 Mar 2010 213
First published by E.F. Dutton & Co. (hardback) in 1953. This paperback edition published by Dell (835) is undated but is circa 1955. Cover art by Don Neiser.

William Campbell Gault - Run, Killer, Run

06 Jan 2010 226
First published in hardback by E.P. Dutton & Co. in 1954. This paperback edition from Dell (868) is undated but is circa 1956. Cover art by Stanley Borack.

Harold Q. Masur - The Big Money

01 Feb 2010 212
First published by Simon & Schuster (hardback) in 1954. This first paperback edition from Dell (874) is undated but according to Mysteryfile is from 1956. Cover art by Seymour Chwast.

George Bagby - The Body in the Basket

21 Jul 2017 1 271
First published in hardback by Doubleday in 1954. This paperback edition published by Dell (904) is undated but is circa 1956. George Bagby was a pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein. Cover art by Arthur Sussman.

Bruno Fischer - The Restless Hands (Dell)

07 Feb 2010 303
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.

William Campbell Gault - Murder in the Raw

02 May 2010 271
Originally published by E.P. Dutton & Co. in hardback as "Ring Around Rosa" in 1955. This re-titled paperback edition published by Dell (926) is undated but is circa 1957. Cover art by Victor Kalin.

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