
1949 Dell mapback reissue
cover art by Gerald Gregg
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1949 Simon & Schuster hardcover, his third with private eye Peter Chambers. Kane preferred “private richard” to “private dick”
cover art by Victor Kalin
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published in 1942 by Morrow, this a later 1947 paperback reprint
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1944 Dell mapback reissue
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selection of two connected Continental Op stories, “The Big Knockover” and “$106,000 Blood Money”:
“The Big Knock-over”, Black Mask Magazine, February 1927
“$106,000 Blood Money”, Black Mask Magazine, March 1927


1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover
Kane’s debut novel and debut of Chambers

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1950 Boardman hardcover from Britain – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

Kane’s first with private eye (Kane preferred “private Richard”) Peter Chambers, a 1947 Simon & Schuster hardcover. The title was changed for the revised 1956 Avon softcover.
cover art by Ray Johnson

1955 Boardman paperback – Denis McLoughlin cover art

1960 Avon reissue – cover art by Ray Johnson
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originally published in Sept. 1941 issue of Black Mask Magazine as “Killers are Camera Shy”,

1948 Dell mapback, mapback by Ruth Belew
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his 3rd novel, a tale of municipal corruption, published two years before his first Lew Archer

1952 Dell mapback reissue
1950 Random House hardcover
cover illustration by Eddie Chan
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