Cleve Adams
As with many of the pulp fiction writers of the early to mid 20th century, Cleve F. Adams was many things before he turned to writing. His short stories were published in a wide variety of magazines from Cosmopolitan to Collier’s and his novels are fast-paced mysteries that could be considered top class.
He is definitely an under-appreciated pulp author but there is rarely a hardboiled omnibus that is published without a Cleve Adams story included.
According to Vincent Starrett, a once well-known columnist, Cleve Adams was “far and away the best writer of the hardboiled school”.
Take a look at the selection of Cleve Adams novels for sale below.
Buy Cleve Adams novels
 John Spain Cleve Adams Death is Like That first ed inscribed by author  US $350.00
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 Up jumped the devil Cleve F Adams Good Book US $34.00
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 Paperback Cleve F Adams Black Door Handi Book 252094 US $10.46
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 MURDER ALL OVER by Cleve F Adams 1st Signet US $.99
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 Paperback Cleve F Adams Private Eye Signet 011033 US $3.51
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 Book Club Hardcover in dust jacket Cleve F Adams Contraband 671166 US $4.39
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 Cleve Adams 1957 Signet 1405 pb THE PRIVATE EYE Great US $7.50
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 Decoy by Cleve F Adams US $3.39
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 The Black Door by Cleve F Adams 1941 EP Dutton 2nd US $19.00
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A Cleve Adams checklist
And Sudden Death (1940)
Sabotage (1940)
The Black Door (1941)
Decoy (1941)
The Vice Czar Murders (1941)
Dig Me A Grave (1942)
The Private Eye (1942)
What Price Murder (1942)
Death Is Like That (1943)
Up Jumped the Devil (1943)
The Crooking Finger (1944)
The Evil Star (1944)
Contraband (1950)
No Wings On A Cop (1950)
Shady Lady (1955)