New York: The Mysterious Press, 1983. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. "The book is a serious psychological study, a detective story, an unusual love story, and an exercise in down-to-the-wire suspense: a worthy addition to the author's already impressive body of work." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 MIDNIGHTS pp. 231-32.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel. Suspense novel of a teenage boy who plans to avenge his disgraced father. Basis for the 1951 film noir "The Big Night." [Reference: Hubin, p. 263. Johnson, The Dark Page (2), p. 52. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 31-33].

[New York]: Random House, 1959. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Winner of the Edgar award for best novel, 1958. "Murray Kirk, legates of Frank Conmy's small detective agency, has also- unknowingly, inherited his embittered judgments which narrow his investigation of a policeman, Arnold Lundeen, whom his client- a lawyer- has decided to defend. As Kirk falls in love with Ruth Vincent, Lundeen's girl, his preconceived belief in Lundeen's guilt is sharpened by his personal desire to brand the man if only through his association with a racket mob; Ruth's insistence- on Arnold's innocence- abides; and it is Kirk's proof which sustains it and changes his own field of vision.... Expectedly an original talent here- a more thoughtful theme- and a hardbitten literacy." Kirkus review, 25 September, 1958. [Reference: Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 1188. Hubin, p. 263].