
December 1954 Signet reissue, first printing
cover painting by Robert Maguire
better image than previously posted

December 1954 Signet reissue, first printing
cover painting by Robert Maguire
better image than previously posted

cover art by Norman Saunders
Robert Martin, “I’ll Be Killing You” (Jim Bennett)
Robert Turner, “Homicidal Hitchhiker”
E.A. Morris, “Fist for a Fighting Fool”
Russell Branch, “If the Frame Fits”
Don James, “Sing a Song of Slaughter” (PI Pete Johns)
Bert Sims,“No Time to Kill” (Hawkshaw Morgan)
Alvin Yudkoff, “You Gotta Die Right”

unknown cover artists – unfortunately…

better image than previously posted
British version, unknown date


1953 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
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his third book, later reprinted as The Hot Spot, made into a movie directed by Dennis Hopper in 1990, staring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly and Virginia Madsen

adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely, his second novel with LA PI Philip Marlowe