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| Bedrooms Have Windows Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A.A. Fair illustrator: Mike Ludlow Dell |
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| Butcher's Dozen John Bartlow Martin illustrator: Harry Schaare Signet |
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| Company K William March illustrator: Rafael DeSoto Lion Books |
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| Cop Jack Karney illustrator: Stanley Zuckerberg Pocket Books |
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| Dark Laughter Sherwood Anderson illustrator: Tom Dunn Pocket Books |
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| Drawn to Evil Harry Whittington illustrator: Norman Saunders Ace |
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| Great Smith Edison Marshall illustrator: Robert Stanley Dell |
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| Keep Cool, Mr. Jones Timothy Fuller illustrator: Robert Stanley Dell |
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| Masters of Deceit J. Edgar Hoover illustrator: Ben Feder Pocket Books |
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| Naked Fury Day Keene illustrator: uncredited Phantom Books |
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| Sweet and Deadly Verne Chute illustrator: A. Leslie Ross Popular Library |
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| The Angry Mountain Hammond Innes illustrator: Mitchell Hooks Bantam |
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| The Disenchanted Budd Schulberg illustrator: Harry Schaare Bantam |
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| The Road's End Albert Conroy illustrator: Barrye Phillips Gold Medal |
All published in 1952, a year of personal significance since it coincided with my own introduction to this unhappy planet. Images sourced from Pop Sensation.













