cover art by George Geygan

George Geygan (American, 20th Century)
Dig Me A Grave by John Spain (Bantam, 1951)
Oil on canvas, 22 x 15-1/2 inches (55.9 x 39.4 cm)
Signed lower right: geygan

pseudonym of Cleve F. Adams

1942 Dutton hardcover

first book published under this pen name

1st of two with private eye Bill Rye

The Underground Man x 10

1971 Knopf hardcover, first edition – cover design by Hal Seigel

London: Collins Crime Club, 1971. First UK Edition. The 16th novel in the Lew Archer series.

1973 Harper UK reissue

1974 Bantam reissue

1979 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks

1989 Fontana UK reissue

1992 Warner reissue – cover art by Gary Kelley

1996 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

2024 UK Penguin reissue

The New Yorker, March 3, 2025

1949 Bantam reissue – cover art by William Wirtz

1938 Heinemann hardcover in the UK, published in the US that same year by Viking. this the later Bantam softcover

murder of a stool pigeon by a penny-ante race track gang lead by a malicious teenage boy.

better image than previously posted