Category: paperback

Meet Me at the Morgue x 9

1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English

one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers

better image than previously posted

1954 Pocket reissue

cover art by Clark Hulings

1954 Great Pan Book edition

cover art by Sam Peffer

May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print

cover art by Frank Kalen

better image than previously posted

1967 Pocket reissue

1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print

1984 Bantam reissue

1991 Warner reissue

2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

[updated 9/13/25]

The Simple Art of Murder

1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print

“The Simple Art of Murder” (Atlantic Monthly, Dec 1944)

“Spanish Blood” (Black Mask Magazine, Nov 1935)

“I’ll Be Waiting” (Saturday Evening Post, Dec 1939)

“The King in Yellow” (Dime Detective Magazine, Mar 1938)

“Pearls are a Nuisance” (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)

cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie