
better image than previously posted
May 1946 Bobbs-Merrill hardcover

December 1946 Bantam paperback reissue
His first with Chicago private eye Paul Pine, a terrific Chandleresque series that is far too little known

February 1958 reissue, 3rd printing

1984 Quill reissue, 1st printing
cover art by Steve Macanga

1947 Appleton hardcover, this the Bantam softcover released the next year
cover art by William Shoyer
his fourth novel

1956 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Owen Kampen

January 1960 Bantam reissue, first printing, first paperback edition
from the July 1957 Random House hardcover
also published as The Soft Talkers

1948 Macmillan hardcover
1952 Popular Library paperback reissue
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
2nd of 2 with Lt. Marty Walsh

February 1954 Bantam 1st printing of this 1937 chiller