Category: paperback

The Drowning Pool x 4

December 1959 Pocket paperback, 2nd print

2nd Lew Archer, an August 1950 Knopf hardcover

cover painting by James Meese

1966 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

1974 Bantam reissue

British 1975 Fontana movie tie-in

Australian 2012 Penguin reissue

Australian 2023 Penguin reissue

[updated 8/20/26]

1st Pocket edition, December 1965

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”