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]
cover art by Harry Barton
Category: paperback
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
cover art by Ron Lesser
Gouache on board, 12.25 x 9.5 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
paperback cover for Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay, Avon, 1966.
1952 Harper hardcover in the US
Winner of the first ever Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1954
April 1960 Bantam edition
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
cover art by Lu Kimmel
November 1955 first printing
cover painting by Lu Kimmel
SMB Noir 