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

1932 Grosset & Dunlap hardcover

1932 Grosset & Dunlap hardcover

“True First Edition (and Photoplay Edition of sorts). Mach Tey dustjacket art featuring the actress Louise Brooks. Author’s first book. Chicago underworld, gang warfare and murder. ‘You’ll love this heroine who staked her life to save her brother from the trap into which they had both fallen’.”