The Crime Club Golden Book Of Best Detective Stories - First Edition 1933 W. Dust Jacket

The Crime Club was an imprint of Doubleday Publishing that specialised in adult crime fiction and mysteries. Populated with larger-than-life criminal masterminds, debonair detectives, and more than a few dames in distress, the books were extremely popular as pure, escapist entertainment.

Operating from 1928 until 1991, the Crime Club published an astounding 2,492 titles from both new and established authors, including Isaac Asimov, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Georgette Heyer, Cornell Woolrich, and Margery Allingham, among many more. The Crime Club may best be remembered for publishing the first U.S. editions of Leslie Charteris's The Saint series and the Fu Manchu series by Sax Rohmer.

Despite the name, the Crime Club didn't operate as a book club in the traditional sense. Of the several titles published every month, the Crime Club Jury would select that month's outstanding story. Members would receive the monthly selection a few days before it became available at bookstores or libraries but it was always of exactly the same quality - and that quality was extremely high. Crime Club books were known for high-grade paper and quality binding, with black cloth covers and blood-red text. The color scheme was reversed for club members' monthly selections - red cloth covers and black text.
Collectors covet vintage Crime Club books not only for their content and their impressive list of authors, but also for their eye-catching dust jackets. Colorfully illustrated in styles ranging from Art Deco to surrealist, the dust jackets were designed by such notable names as Boris Artzybasheff, Andy Warhol, Vera Bock, Russell Patterson and Edward McNight Kauffer.

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