
1956 Dell paperback original, 8 short stories
cover painting by Robert Stanley


1st Pocket edition, December 1965
first hardcovers were 1964 from Hamish Hamilton the UK and Houghton Mifflin in the US
From Black Mask Magazine: “Killer in the Rain”, “The Men Who Liked Dogs”, “The Curtain” and “Try the Girl”
From Dime Detection Magazine: “Mandarin’s Jade”, “Bay City Blues” and “The Lady in the Lake”
From Detective Story Magazine: “No Crime in the Mountains”


January 1956 subscription issue – different cover from the newsstand issue

gouache on illustration board, 13″ x 18″
[post updated 1/1/24]