Let Us Now Praise Mapbacks

No Coffin for the Corpse, by Clayton Rawson (Dell, 1948). Cover illustration by Gerald Gregg. As I explain today in The Rap Sheet, I recently put together a piece for CrimeReads that showcases Dell Books’ outstanding “mapback” editions of the mid-20th century. You will find the completed CrimeReads post right here. During my work on that article, I poured through the 600-or-so paperbacks