1971 Knopf hardcover, first edition – cover design by Hal Seigel
London: Collins Crime Club, 1971. First UK Edition. The 16th novel in the Lew Archer series.
1979 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks
1992 Warner reissue – cover art by Gary Kelley
1996 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
March 1950 Pocket paperback, first printing
cover painting by Harvey Kidder
first in the long-running and deservedly respected Lew Archer series by Kenneth Millar, aka Ross Macdonald. After using his father’s name as the pen name for this novel, he was forced by John D. MacDonald to alter it for future novels, and Ross Macdonald was born.
1959, third printing
cover art by Jerry Allison
1990 Warner edition
cover art by Gary Kelley
[updated 9/6/25 ~ all copies mine]
December 1959 Pocket paperback, 2nd print
2nd Lew Archer, an August 1950 Knopf hardcover
cover painting by James Meese
SMB Noir 
