better image than previously posted
Category: paperback
1951 Handi-Book paperback
November 1957 Bantam paperback reissue
November 1957 Bantam paperback reissue
cover art by Sanford Kossin
better image than previously posted
cover art by Robert Abbott
1964 Macfadden reissue
cover art by Robert Abbett
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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 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 Barton
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]
1941 Pocket paperback
October 1941 Pocket paperback, 1st printing, first paperback edition
SMB Noir 