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DEAD MAN BLUES.
New York: The American Mercury / Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, n.d., [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. A Mercury Book, No. 135. Digest size magazine format. Abridged.
AFTER-DINNER STORY.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1944]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of six stories, including the classic "Rear Window," basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film (1954). Queen's Quorum #97.
AFTER-DINNER STORY.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1944]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of six stories, including the classic "Rear Window," basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film (1954). Queen's Quorum #97. Hubin, p. 431.
THE BEST OF WILLIAM IRISH.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, n.d. [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects The Phantom Lady, After Dinner Story and Deadline at Dawn.
THE BLUE RIBBON.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of eight stories, three of which were adapted for the television anthology series "The Ford Television Theatre" (1955-57).
BORROWED CRIME: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #42. Digest size format. Collects four stories, two from Black Mask. Borrowed Crime [Black Mask], The Cape Triangular [Detective Fiction Weekly], Detective William Brown [Detective Fiction Weekly] and Chance [Black Mask].
THE DANCING DETECTIVE.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection. The short story "Two Men in a Furnished Room" was the source for the noir film The Guilty (1947).
THE DANCING DETECTIVE.
New York: Popular Library, [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Popular Library 309. Collects eight stories which first appeared in pulp magazines. This is the only paperback printing of this title.
DEAD MAN BLUES.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. Story collection. The story "Fire Escape" was filmed as The Window in 1949 and The Boy Cried Murder in 1966, the story "If the Dead Could Talk" was filmed as Obsession in 1954 and again in 1984 as Cloak and Dagger, several other stories were also filmed in Japan and Argentina.
DEADLINE AT DAWN.
[New York]: Graphic Publishing Company, Inc., [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition thus. Graphic #16. First Graphic edition. Abridged from the hardcover. First paperback edition is an Armed Services edition.
I MARRIED A DEAD MAN.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Filmed twice, first as the film noir No Man of Her Own (1950) starring Barbara Stanwyck and again in France as J'ai épousé une ombre (1982).
IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE.
New York: Avon Books, 1945. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #31. Paperback original, digest size. Collects six stories.
LADY FANTOME (THE PHANTOM LADY).
Paris: Fournier-Valdes, [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First French edition. Softcover. First French edition of The Phantom Lady.
THE PHANTOM LADY.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1944]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket #253.
SIX NIGHTS OF MYSTERY.
New York: Popular Library, [1950]. Small octavo, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library 258. Paperback original. Collection of six stories, all from pulps, three from Argosy, three from Black Mask, several with title changes. Hubin, p. 431.
SIX TIMES DEATH.
New York: Popular Library, [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First trade paperback edition. Popular Library 137. First published in hardcover as After Dinner Story, published in an Armed Services edition in softcover, this is the first trade paperback edition, also first with this new title.
STRANGLER'S SERENADE.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1951]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A series of murders terrify a small town.
DEADLY NIGHT CALL.
[Hasbrouck Heights, NJ: Graphic Publishing Company, Inc., 1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Graphic Books 31. First published in hardcover as Somebody on the Phone. Collection of six stories.