The Venus Death x 3

1953 Mill hardcover

cover art by Isabel Dawson

1st of 7 books in his series with Massachusetts State Trooper Ralph Lindsay

1954 Bantam reissue

cover art by Mitchell Hooks

better image than previously posted

1953 Presses de la Cité, French paperback edition

The Golden Spiders x 6

1953 Viking hardcover

22nd Nero Wolfe book

1955 Bantam reissue

cover art by Barye Phillips

better image than previously posted

1964 Bantam reissue

1964 UK edition from Fontana

cover art by Renato Fratini

1972 French edition

1989 Bantam reissue

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