
1950 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Frederic Varady


cover art by A. Rose
~ Eustace Hale Ball, “The Trail of the Scarlet Fox”, part 2 of 6 parts with various subtitles, BM debut, 2nd of 13 appearances in BM
~ Drayton Dunster, “Her Gold and Her Pearls”, 2nd of 9 stories in BM
~ Eliza Mae Harvey, “The Last Snow”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ W.H. Holmes, “Creeping Death”, ‘A Complete Mystery Novelette’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Francis James, “Sinister Images”, Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist turned policeman (‘the young Central Office Man’) with Police Chief Shannon, 1st of 4 parts, 3rd of 20 appearances in BM
~ A. Kandel, “Eulogy on a Rare Theme”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Roy L. McCardell, “A Million A Year”, last of 4 parts, 4th of 5 appearances in BM
~ Marr Murray, “Hades and Return”, ‘South Sea story‘, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “After Ten Thousand Miles”, 1st of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, ‘(see pp. 38-39 for data on CS); no effort has been made to sustain the supposed veracity of series; see also under Joseph Gallomb, Glenn G. Gravatt, & Robert Lee Heiser’, 1st of 49 total articles in BM
~ Horace Winston Stokes, “The Devil’s Hollow”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “The Fixer”, 4th of 12 tales in ‘My Underworld’ series, billed as fiction, 4th of 13th appearances in BM
~ N.H. Wilson, “The Head of Clampini”, ‘Daytime story’, author’s sole appearance in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

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Day Keene, “The Corpse That Ran Away”
Carl Rathjen, “The Pied Piper of Destruction”
Donald G. Cormack, “There’s More Room in the Coffin!“
Joe Kent, “The Bleeding Sosibi”
Fredric Brown, “Death in the Dark”
Francis K. Allan, “Murder Has a Voice”

1958 Hamish Hamilton, true 1st edition

1958 Houghton Mifflin hardcover


1959 Brazilian edition in Portuguese

1960 Cardinal reissue – cover art by William Rose
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1961 Australian edition from Horwitz – cover art by Theo Batten

1965 British edition – cover design by Alan Spain

1968 Pyramid reissue – cover art by Joseph Lombardero



1975 Penguin edition – cover design by James Tormey

1977 Ballantine reissue, 1st print (owner’s copy) – cover art by Richard Waldrep

later 1977 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep


1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams


late 8os UK Penguin reissue






1999 Scandinavian edition (unsure of country)


2004 French graphic novel edition

[updated 3/8/26]

1953 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first edition of this novel

1954 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first US edition – (owner’s copy)
cover illustration by Lorraine
final Marlowe novel, an American classic and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel

1954 Hammish Hamilton book club edition

August 1955 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – (owner’s copy)
cover art by Tom Dunn


1964 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett


1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep

1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover design by James Tormey

1972 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1973 Ballantine movie tie-in reissue (owner’s copy)

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Richard Williams



1988 UK Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue




1940 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition


1943 Hamish Hamilton UK 1st ed.

1956 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – cover art by James Meese (owner’s copy)

1945 Pocket reissue – cover by E. McKnight Kauffer

The Brasher Doubloon (20th Century Fox, 1946). Very Fine- on Linen. Three Sheet (41″ X 78.5″).
adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The High Window – noted in tiny print on the poster



1961 Horwitz reissue from Australia – cover art by Theo Batten


1967 Hamish Hamilton reissue, Fingerprint Edition


1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1988 Penguin/Random House reissue


1992 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1993 Thorndike large print edition




2011 Penguin Classics UK reissue
