
1959 Morrow US first edition

1960 Heinemann UK first edition

1961 Corgi reissue from the UK

1962 Pocket reissue, cover art by Harry Bennett

1963 Corgi reissue from the UK

1964 Pocket reissue, 3rd print


1959 Morrow US first edition

1960 Heinemann UK first edition

1961 Corgi reissue from the UK

1962 Pocket reissue, cover art by Harry Bennett

1963 Corgi reissue from the UK

1964 Pocket reissue, 3rd print


1941 Morrow hardcover
4th in the Bertha Cool & Donald Lam series

cover art by George A. Frederiksen/ mapback by Ruth Belew


1951 British Pocket paperback edition
cover art by Roland Davies

1959 Panther edition from Britain – cover art by Ley Kenton

1952. Dell reissue – cover art by Carl Bobertz

1957 Dell reissue – cover illustration by by Push-Pin Studios

April 1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

7th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

1948 Dell reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg
better image than previously posed

1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley



1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Ron Lesser

1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

cover art by Fred Scotwood
better image than previously posted
1941 Morrow hardcover, his 5th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam



August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

published in 1951 by Heinemann in London as An Axe to Grind. this the 1960 Australian edition by Horowitz


cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted

aka Erle Stanley Gardner
1949 Morrow hardcover, 12th in the series with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
cover art by Mike Ludlow

1952 Morrow hardcover
1954 Dell reissue
13th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
cover art by Griffith Foxley
better image than previously posted