Killer Covers at 10: “The April Robin Murders”

A decade in business, 12 months’ worth of paperback fronts. The April Robin Murders, by Craig Rice and Ed McBain (Dell, 1959). As blogger Sergio Angelini explained a few years ago in Tipping My Fedora, this was “the final novel by Craig Rice”—aka Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig—“that was left unfinished at her death [in August 1957] and ultimately completed by Evan Hunter under his ‘Ed McBain’