
cover art by Albert Fisher
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Mixed media on board, 21 x 15 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
Till Death Do Us Part by Louis Trimble, Ace Double D-367, 1959.


1975 Random House first edition
Crumley’s first mystery, a modern classic.
first with Montana private eye Milton Chester Milodragovitch

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
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1947 Appleton hardcover, this the Bantam softcover released the next year
cover art by William Shoyer
his fourth novel

1956 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Owen Kampen

cover art by Gloria Stoll
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “Heir in the Air”, 22nd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 25th of 32 stories in BM
~ Brett Halliday (pseud. of David Dresser), “Dead Man’s Diary”, 2nd of 2 Mike Shayne stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Over My Dead Body”, 7th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 12th of 23 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “Alcoholics Calamitous”, last of 10 Cellini Smith appearances, last of 12 appearances in BM
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