
1959 Harcourt hardcover
1961 Permabook paperback reissue
cover art by Harry Bennett

pseudonym of Marijane Meaker
1963 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted


1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes

1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

cover art by Harry Bennett

later Consul issue from the UK
pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein
30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad

1959 Morrow US first edition

1960 Heinemann UK first edition

1961 Corgi reissue from the UK

1962 Pocket reissue, cover art by Harry Bennett

1963 Corgi reissue from the UK

1964 Pocket reissue, 3rd print


1953 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first edition of this novel

1954 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first US edition – (owner’s copy)
cover illustration by Lorraine
final Marlowe novel, an American classic and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel

1954 Hammish Hamilton book club edition

August 1955 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – (owner’s copy)
cover art by Tom Dunn


1964 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett


1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep

1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover design by James Tormey

1972 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1973 Ballantine movie tie-in reissue (owner’s copy)

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Richard Williams



1988 UK Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue




1932 Stokes hardcover
cover art on this later Pocket reissue by Harry Bennett
5th in the series

1941 Morrow hardcover
4th in the Bertha Cool & Donald Lam series

cover art by George A. Frederiksen/ mapback by Ruth Belew


1951 British Pocket paperback edition
cover art by Roland Davies

1959 Panther edition from Britain – cover art by Ley Kenton

1952. Dell reissue – cover art by Carl Bobertz

1957 Dell reissue – cover illustration by by Push-Pin Studios

April 1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

1961 Perma Books paperback original
2nd with Lt. Shomri Shomar
cover art by Harry Bennett

pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, who also wrote as Stewart Sterling
1960 Doubleday hardcover, this the later 1961 Pocket paperback
cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted