1965 Penguin release
Tag: penguin paperback
The Kiss of Death x 3
1947 Penguin paperback original / cover design by Robert Jonas
published under at least one other title and adapted into two different movies, both with different titles
besides being a noted novelist, Lipsky was also an attorney and served as the legal counsel for the Mystery Writers of America
cover art by Robert Abbett
better image than previously posted
1962 Penguin UK reissue
The Case of the Smoking Chimney x 5
2nd book with Gramps Wiggins
cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff
1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
better image than previously posted
1963 Horwitz edition from Australia
1963 British edition from Penguin
cover art by Sheila Perry
1965 Penguin reissue
1958 Cassell hardcover, this the later Penguin softcover
his first novel, first with Col. Charles Russell of the Security Executive
The Underground Man x 10
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
1972 Penguin reissue
2013 Penguin trade paperback
edited by Sarah Weinman, an historical survey of the “Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense”.
authors include Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Helen Neilsen, Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar and Vera Caspary.
[last cover updated 4/13/25]
SMB Noir 
