Day Of The Dolls #1

Today kicks off the Day of the Dolls. All this week I will be showcasing a mystery title or two with Doll in the title. Why do you ask? Dolls. All through the late forties to the early sixties a doll would be associated with a hardboiled or noir title.

Introducing

Day of the Dolls

Dead Dolls Don't Cry (1953)

by Carter Brown

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Transport Publishing Company

for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novelette Series

"Lovely" Mystery
1953

First Collectors' Series
w/Widow Is Willing & Blackmail For A Brunette 
No.9
1955

Death House Doll (1953)

by Day Keene

Printing History

Written by Gunnar Hjerstedt, (1904-1969)

Ace

D-41 

w/Mourning After by Thomas B Dewey

January 1953 

Prologue Books

November 2012