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1949 Hillman reissue – first paperback edition
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1991 Black Lizard paperback reissue
cover art by Kirwan
[post updated 6/13/25]
Nothing More Than Murder x 6
Tag: black lizard paperback
The Moving Target x 13
THE FIRST LEW ARCHER
1949 Knopf hardcover – cover illustration by Bill English
first in the long-running and deservedly respected Lew Archer series by Kenneth Millar, aka Ross Macdonald. After using his father’s name as the pen name for this novel, he was forced by John D. MacDonald to alter it for future novels, and Ross Macdonald was born.
March 1950 Pocket paperback, first printing
cover painting by Harvey Kidder
British 1951 Cassell hardcover
1954 Pan reissue – cover by Sax
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1959 Pocket reissue, third printing – cover art by Jerry Allison (owner’s copy)
1966 Fontana movie tie-in edition
1977 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks
1984 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh
1998 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
1990 Warner edition – cover art by Gary Kelley (owner’s copy)
[updated 9/6/25, 8/27/26]
Seven Slayers x 5
1946 Chartered digest paperback original
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1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine
“Black” (May 1932)
“Red 71” (December 1932)
“Parlor Trick” (July 1932)
“One, Two, Three” (May 1933)
“Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine
“Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)
“Pineapple” (March 1936)
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue
cover art by Joe Servello
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Hardest of the Hardboiled #2 x 7
1933 Doubleday Doran advance reading copy
1948 Avon reprint, 1st paperback edition
cover art by Ann Cantor
Fast One was Cain’s sole novel
Chandler termed it the “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner”
cover art by Victor Olsen
1978 Southern Illinois University Press
an entry in their “Lost American Fiction” series
1980 Popular Library 1st print reissue
cover art by Jin Campbell
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[updated 6/26/25]
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