


[original art added 8/11/25]

watercolor and gouache on board, 25 x 16-1/2 inches
1955 Popular Library paperback original

[original art updated 9/14/26]

first published as a hardcover in 1938 by Knopf, his third novel

1951 Signet reissue – cover art by Ray Pease



[post updated 4/10/26]

1949 Simon & Schuster hardcover, his third with private eye Peter Chambers. Kane preferred “private richard” to “private dick”
cover art by Victor Kalin
better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted

[post updated 10/24/26]