1941 Knopf hardcover, 1945 Avon reissue
cover art by Paul Stahr
published by Hale in the UK as Murder for Hannah
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1943 Avon Murder Mystery Monthly digest
cover art by William Frost (William Forrest)
1941 Knopf hardcover, first edition
“The second appearance of the character Hanna Van Doren, considered the first female hard-boiled detective in American literature.”
1951 Simon & Schuster, and Inner Sanctum Mystery
1951 Signet mass market release
also published as Goodbye Stranger in England, 1952
cover art by Carl Bobertz
cover art by Art Sussman
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First UK Edition, preceding all others. The first collection of these stories.
“Killer in the Rain” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1935)
“The Man Who Liked Dogs” (Black Mask Magazine, Mar. 1936)
“The Curtain” (Black Mask Magazine, Sept. 1936)
“Try the Girl” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1937)
“Mandarin’s Jade” (Dime Detective Magazine, Nov. 1937)
“Bay City Blues” (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1938)
“The Lady in the Lake” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1939)
“No Crime in the Mountains”(Detective Story Magazine, Sept. 1941)
introduction by Philip Durham
1st Pocket edition, December 1965
June 1973 Bantam reissue
cover art by Tom Adams
July 1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Robert Golden
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1946 William Morrow, first edition.
Geoffrey Homes, Build My Gallows High, 1946 Morrow hardcover
1956 Ace Double paperback reissue
cover art by Harry Barton
basis for the 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past
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