Howard Brown publishing as John Evans

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

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

Gouache on board, 22 x 16-1/2 inches (55.9 x 41.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right

The work is published in The Bramble Bush by David Duncan (Macmillan, 1948).

1953 Pocket reissue

cover art by James Meese

1953 Bantam reissue

cover art by James Meese