1935 Morrow hardcover
cover art by Romek Marber
Tag: penguin paperback
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
I Should Have Stayed Home x 5
first published as a hardcover in 1938 by Knopf, his third novel
1951 Signet reissue – cover art by Ray Pease
[post updated 4/10/26]
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]
Trouble is My Business x 3
June 1973 Ballantine reissue
cover art by Tom Adams
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd printing
includes:
introduction by Raymond Chandler, originally from The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin, 1950)
“Trouble is My Business” (Dime Detective Magazine, Aug. 1939)
“Finger Man” (Black Mask Magazine, Oct. 1934)
“Goldfish” (Black Mask Magazine, June 1936)
“Red Wind” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1938)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
[covers from owner’s own copies]
[updated 3/3/26]
The Big Knockover x
1944 Dell mapback reissue
better image than previously posted
selection of two connected Continental Op stories, “The Big Knockover” and “$106,000 Blood Money”:
“The Big Knock-over”, Black Mask Magazine, February 1927
“$106,000 Blood Money”, Black Mask Magazine, March 1927
The Case of the Haunted Husband x 12
cover art by Bernard Safran
1951 Penguin UK reissue – cover art by Jaeger
cover design by Silver Studio
1957 Penguin reissue – cover by David Caplan
November 1958 Cardinal paperback reissue, 1st printing
cover art by John Fernie
better image than previously posted
cover art by Robert McGinnis
[updated 6/16/26]
SMB Noir 
