February 1969 Signet paperback original
cover art by Robert McGinnis
background is his version of Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70, 1961
cover art by Robert McGinnis
Category: paperback
cover painting by D.G Summers
1952 Crown hardcover
October 1952 Signet paperback, first printing
first of the series, introducing Kansas City private eye Johnny April, written by a pair of detectives – John Roscoe and Michael Ruso – who worked together at Hargrove’s Detective Agency in KC
cover painting by D.G Summers
cover art by Charles Moll
Farewell My Lovely, 1980
Acrylic and pencil on board, 18-1/4 x 14-1/4 inches (46.4 x 36.2 cm)
Initialed lower left
cover art by Robert Maguire
Oil on board, 27 x 16.5 in.
Signed lower left
This illustration appeared on the cover of Lionel White’s crime noir novel, To Find a Killer, Signet Books #1241, 1955
cover art by Harry Schaare
Oil on board, 19.25 x 14.25 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
Murder for Madame by Adam Knight, Signet #920, 1952.
pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar
[updated 6/23/25, corrected 4/3/26]
1941 Pocket paperback
October 1941 Pocket paperback, 1st printing, first paperback edition
cover painting by Darrell Greene
June 1959 Cardinal paperback, 1st print, 1st paperback
cover painting by Darrell Greene
better image than previously posted
neo-pulp cover art by Chris Rahn
2008 Academy of Chicago Press reissue of the 2nd Charlie Chan novel, first published in 1926. Second of the six Chan mysteries.
neo-pulp cover by Chris Rahn
cover painting by Manuel Isip
February 1950 Pocket first printing
1st US softcover
cover painting by Manuel Isip
13th with sleuth Albert Campion
cover art by Barye Phillips
May 1953 Gold Medal paperback original, 1st print
cover art by Barye Phillips
an account of the lurid Ruth Snyder case
better image than previously posted
