
cover art by Emmett Watson

1944 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition
author’s first novel, Lew Archer was a few years away

1950 Lion reissue – cover art by E. Walter

1955 Lion reissue with different title
cover art by Clark Hulings



1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh


cover art by William Reusswig
better image than previously posted
Madeleine Sharps Buchanan, “The White Diver of Death”
Frederick Nebel, “Six Diamonds and a Dick” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “Once a Crook” (Dave Loree)
Robert H. Rohde, “The Chamber of Doom”
Carroll John Daly, “The Crime Machine” (Vee Brown)
Norman H. White, Jr., “Hot Ice” (Jack Williams)
profile of Buchanan appeared on pgs 123-24

April 1946 issue
cover art by Samuel Cherry
better image than previously posted
D.L. Champion, “No Place Like Homicide” (Mariano Mercado)
Julius Long, “The Needle and the Hood” (C.D. Mort)
John Knox, “Home is Where the Hearse Is”
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Double” (Doc Pierce)
Roland Phillips, “Murder Rides a Broomstick”
A. Boyd Correll, “Lethal Legacy”