kenneth millar – SMB Noir

January 1953 issue

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author’s first novel, Lew Archer was a few years away

1950 Lion reissue – cover art by E. Walter

cover art by Clark Hulings

1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh

2nd Lew Archer, an August 1950 Knopf hardcover

cover painting by James Meese

1966 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

[updated 8/20/26]

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his 3rd novel, a tale of municipal corruption, published two years before his first Lew Archer

[updated 8/26/26]