

2nd book with Gramps Wiggins
cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff

1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
better image than previously posted

1963 Horwitz edition from Australia

1963 British edition from Penguin
cover art by Sheila Perry


2nd book with Gramps Wiggins
cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff

1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
better image than previously posted

1963 Horwitz edition from Australia

1963 British edition from Penguin
cover art by Sheila Perry

1963 Horowitz paperback original release in Australia
1964 Signet paperback original in the US – cover art by Robert McGinnis


pseudonym of E(dgar) Hoffman Price
1952 Falcon paperback original
cover art by Howell Dodd
1954 Phantom reissue from Australia with “copied” cover art


cover art by Julian Paul
1953 Lion paperback original
oil on board, 24 x 17.5 in.

1955 Horwitz edition from Australia


1952 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
first of two uses of this joint pen name of Davis Dresser (aka Brett Halliday) and Walter Ryerson Johnson

1952 Phantom paperback original from Australia

Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy
1917 published in Britain by Hodder and Stoughton and Doran in NYC, this the later 1960 Australian softcover from Horwitz
a “Scarlet Pimpernel” novel

1971 Knopf hardcover, first edition – cover design by Hal Seigel (owner’s copy)

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

Australian 2012 Penguin reissue

Australian 2024 Penguin reissue

[post updated 8/20/26]

1950 Handi-Book digest original
cover art by George Gross



cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

1963 Beacon paperback original with updated artwork