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WHO’S CALLING? by Helen McCloy. (New York: Dell mapback #151, 1942?)

[my-52-weeks-with-christie]

[grindhousecellar]

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THE MOUNTAIN CAT MURDERS by Rex Stout. (New York: Dell mapback #28, 19)

THE MOUNTAIN CAT [aka DARK REVENGE; aka THE MOUNTAIN CAT MURDERS] by Rex Stout. (New York: Farrar Rinehart, 1939)

The Mountain Cat Murders is a 1939 mystery novel by Rex Stout, featuring a young lawyer, Delia Brand, in Cody, Wyoming, who is framed for murder and must clear her name by investigating her father's unsolved death and a glamorous, notorious woman known as the "Mountain Cat". The story, which first appeared as Dark Revenge, is a standalone novel and not part of the Nero Wolfe series, though it showcases Stout's skill in the genre.

DARK REVENGE [aka THE MOUNTAIN CAT MURDERS; aka MOUNTAIN CAT] by Rex Stout. (The American Magazine, 06-39) Cover by Harold von Schmidt. Abridgment.

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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Gaston Leroux (New York: Dell mapback #24, 1943)

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux is a classic French gothic horror novel, published in 1910, about a masked, disfigured musical genius (Erik) haunting the Paris Opera House, tutoring soprano Christine Daaé, and driven by obsessive love and jealousy, inspiring numerous adaptations, including the famous musical and early films, with the original story being darker and more gruesome than many modern retellings.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Gaston Leroux. (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925)

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Gaston Leroux. (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911)

French artist Andre Castaigne painted five watercolors for this work, utilized as color plates in this edition. As jacketed copies have only been recently been discovered— the first at auction in 2015— it is becoming clear that Bobbs-Merrill used each illustration for a color dust jacket design. This was an unusual display of largesse and graphic design savviness at a time when jackets were generally drab reproductions of the book’s boards and considered disposable

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TOO BUSY TO DIE by H.W. Roden (New York: Dell mapback #185, 1947)

TOO BUSY TO DIE by H.W. Roden (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944)

TOO BUSY TO DIE (London: Corgi, 1953(

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MURDER IN THE MIST by Zelda Popkin (New York: Dell, [1940])

MURDER IN THE MIST (New York: Lippincott, 1940)

Murder in the Mist is a 1940 mystery novel by Zelda Popkin, featuring her recurring detective, Mary Carner, a professional investigator for a New York department store. The story follows Mary and her husband, Chris, as they investigate the murder of an artist's model at a Massachusetts tourist hotel, encountering eccentric guests and staff while piecing together clues. It's known as a classic "whodunit" from the Golden Age of detective fiction, praised for its pure mystery and competent female sleuth

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TOO MANY COOKS by Rex Stout (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938) Nero Wolfe

TOO MANY COOKS by Rex Stout (New York: Dell mapback #45, 1938) Nero Wolfe

TOO MANY COOKS by Rex Stout (London: Pan #192, 1951) Cover art by Carl Wilson./ [aka LA SAUCE ZINGARA]