
cover art by Howell Dodd
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The city's different at night. The air smells better. It's harder to see that the oil rigs outnumber the palm trees and it's almost like the good old days. At least the way I'd
like to remember them. Stay in this business long enough and every street leads to a place you'd like to forget. Every case brings back memories of what might have been, and every skirt reminds you of another woman.
Or, if you've got it bad enough, the same woman.
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sequel to Chinatown, written by Robert Towne, directed by Jack Nicholson
poster illustration by Rodriquez

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

cover art by Jerry Allison

June 1963 Pocket reissue, 3rd print
cover art by Harry Bennett
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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]

Famous Crimes #1 (Fox Features Syndicate, 1948) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages.