June 1973 Ballantine reissue
cover art by Tom Adams
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd printing
includes:
introduction by Raymond Chandler, originally from The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin, 1950)
“Trouble is My Business” (Dime Detective Magazine, Aug. 1939)
“Finger Man” (Black Mask Magazine, Oct. 1934)
“Goldfish” (Black Mask Magazine, June 1936)
“Red Wind” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1938)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
[covers from owner’s own copies]
[updated 3/3/26]
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
better image than previously posted
[post updated 7/3/25]
December 1954 Signet reissue, first printing
cover painting by Robert Maguire
better image than previously posted
1953 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted
his third book, later reprinted as The Hot Spot, made into a movie directed by Dennis Hopper in 1990, staring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly and Virginia Madsen
Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain
first published in 1958 by Simon & Schuster, one of his ‘straight’ straight, not a crime novel
cover art by Barye Phillips
adapted into a 1960 movie with Kim Novak and Kirk Douglas
published in 1942 by Morrow, this a later 1947 paperback reprint
better image than previously posted
1952 Popular Library paperback original
cover art by A. Leslie Ross
better image than previously posted
1944 Dell mapback reissue
better image than previously posted
selection of two connected Continental Op stories, “The Big Knockover” and “$106,000 Blood Money”:
“The Big Knock-over”, Black Mask Magazine, February 1927
“$106,000 Blood Money”, Black Mask Magazine, March 1927
1960 Gold Medal paperback original
cover painting by Robert Abbett
“Garrity” was the name that David J(ames) Gerrity published under
SMB Noir 