VI-1  Five Sinister Characters  New York:  Avon Book Company [1945].  Murder Mystery Monthly #28.  Full-color pictorial wrappers.  Note:  A digest-sized (7 5/8" x 5 1/4") paperback original, containing the first book appearances of "Trouble is My Business," "Pearls are a Nuisance," "I'll Be Waiting," "The King in Yellow," "Red Wind."   Published February 14, 1945.  The second edition, published in 1946, also by Avon, is an ordinary-sized paperback, identified as being #88 in the New Avon Library. 

VI-2  New York:  Avon, [1946].  New Avon Library #88.