1953 E. P. Dutton, 1953, first edition. A Gilt Edged Mystery.
1953 Dutton hardcover
Category: Hardboiled
1962 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks
The Underground Man x 10
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
The Neon Jungle x 4 + 1
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
Whittington and more
1950 Handi-Book digest original
cover art by George Gross
cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
1963 Beacon paperback original with updated artwork
Clean Break into The Killing
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition. In publisher’s trial dust jacket, date stamped March 1, 1955, on the bottom of the front flap.
Basis for Stanley Kubrick’s breakthrough 1956 film “The Killing,” starring Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles.
1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire
1988 Black Lizard reissue – cover art by Kirwin
1956 United Artists – written and directed by Stanley Kubrick
February 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Robert Martin, “Death Under Glass” (Lee Fisk)
Hank Searls, “For Tomorrow We Die”
Talmage Powell, “Nobody’s Darling”
Frederick C. Davis, “Furlough for Murder” (reprint from 1943)
Larry Holden, “Prelude for Wake”
Don James, “G-String Kill”
John Bender, “In Jail By Christmas” (published in 1941 as “Prelude to an Operation”)
Ray Darby, “According to Plan”
1953 Ace paperback original – cover art by Julian Paul
1959 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare
pseudonym of Keith Carlton Robertson
first published as The Diamond-Studded Typewriter in 1958 by Macmillan
republished the following year by Dell in softcover with a new title
better image than previously posted
[updated with cover art 8/8/25]
SMB Noir 
