
1944 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition
author’s first novel, Lew Archer was a few years away

1950 Lion reissue – cover art by E. Walter

1955 Lion reissue with different title
cover art by Clark Hulings



1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh


1944 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition
author’s first novel, Lew Archer was a few years away

1950 Lion reissue – cover art by E. Walter

1955 Lion reissue with different title
cover art by Clark Hulings



1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh


1942 Dodd Mead hardcover/Red Badge Mystery

cover art by Gerald Gregg/map by Ruth Belew
better image than previously posted


1949 Dell mapback reissue – cover art by William George Jacobson

1955 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Schulz


1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis



1949 Dodd Mead hardcover, a Red Badge Mystery

1949 Dodd Mead hardcover, this the later 1`950 Dell mapback
cover art by Robert Stanley
17th with Miami private eye Mike Shayne
better image than previously posted
map by Ruth Belew

1957 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley

1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted


1943 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition

cover art by Ben Hallam, mapback by Ruth Belew


original title: Blood on the Black Market
cover art by Robert Stanley
better image than previously posted

cover art by Robert McGinnis

above art repurposed from 1958 Dell edition of Frank Kane’s Syndicate Girl

cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted