#johnny liddell

[transistoradio]

Four paperbacks with cover art by Roger Kastel (b. 1932).

[box-o-paperbacks]

Green Light For Death, 1956

[pulpsandcomics2]

“Poisons Unknown” By Frank Kane

A Johnny Liddell  mystery published in 1955    Cover by William George

[thepopculturearchivist]

House ad in Columbia pulps, 1949

[mudwerks]

During the early 1960s, Harry Bennett created a unified series of cover illustrations for several of Frank Kane’s novels featuring New York City private eye Johnny Liddell.

[seattlemysterybooks]

vintagebookseller

1962 Dell paperback original

cover art by Harry Bennett

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[amsaklapper-blog]

Frank KANE Le Dragon aime l’opium 

A Johnny Liddell investigation. (The guilt edged frame)

1966. The collection “Tonnerre” ‘s goal was to present to the french readership america’s bestselling crime novels of the period. Alas, the collection did not go further than seven issues among which were 3 “Shell Scott” novels by Richard S. Prather and 2 “Johnny Liddell” by Frank Kane.

There was a real effortmade by the publisher on the presentation and the printing of the novels.

cover art: Jacques Blondeau

Publisher: Inter-Presse, 1, rue Fresnel, Paris 

source:amsaklapper’s collection

[seattlemysterybooks]

philsp.com

July 1945 issue

Frank Kane, “Morgue-Star Final” (Johnny Liddell)   

Wilcey Earle, “Law and Disorder” 

Talmage Powell, “To Fit the Crime"    

Seymour Irving Richin, “So Dead the Rose"   

Judy Zissman, “No Heart for Murder"   

Mel Watt, “The Soft Steps of Terror" 

Walter C. Fabell, “Fate Sends a Shadow"

Kenneth P. Wood, “Origins of the Third Degree"   

Basil Wells, “Fact and Fantasy”    

T. W. Ford, “Cherchez La Frame-Up”

Seattle Mystery Bookshop