
1960 Newsstand Library paperback original
cover art by Robert Bonfils
Willeford’s original title was The Director
better image than previously posted

1960 Newsstand Library paperback original
cover art by Robert Bonfils
Willeford’s original title was The Director
better image than previously posted

1960 Macmillan hardcover, winner of the Cock Robin award.
this the later 1961 Ace reissue
1967 British paperback from Four Square


published in 1949 by Collins in London and Doubleday in NYC
born in Rangoon, Morna Doris Brown wrote as Elizabeth Ferrars in England but the US publishers changed it to E.X. Ferrars.
cover art by Frank Smith
better image than previously posted

1953 E. P. Dutton, 1953, first edition. A Gilt Edged Mystery.

1971 Knopf hardcover, first edition – cover design by Hal Seigel

London: Collins Crime Club, 1971. First UK Edition. The 16th novel in the Lew Archer series.



1979 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks


1992 Warner reissue – cover art by Gary Kelley

1996 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue



1953 Gold Medal paperback original

1958 Gold Medal reissue – cover art attributed to James Meese


1960 Digit UK paperback – not the MacDonald but same art


1950 Handi-Book digest original
cover art by George Gross



cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

1963 Beacon paperback original with updated artwork