Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Day of the Dolls #3

Today is the third day of 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
Dolls and Dues
by Orrie Hitt

Cover by Walter Popp

Printing History
Written by Orrie Hitt

Beacon Books
BB151
1957

Bonus

 Campus Doll
by Edwin West

Cover by Tom Miller
 Printing History
Written by Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008)

Monarch Books
1961

1 comment:

  1. Such different settings, but the same noir sort of context

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