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1951 Coward McCann hardcover
cover art by Tom Dunn
December 1959 Pocket paperback, 2nd print
2nd Lew Archer, an August 1950 Knopf hardcover
cover painting by James Meese
1st Pocket edition, December 1965
first hardcovers were 1964 from Hamish Hamilton the UK and Houghton Mifflin in the US
From Black Mask Magazine: “Killer in the Rain”, “The Men Who Liked Dogs”, “The Curtain” and “Try the Girl”
From Dime Detection Magazine: “Mandarin’s Jade”, “Bay City Blues” and “The Lady in the Lake”
From Detective Story Magazine: “No Crime in the Mountains”
March 1952 Pocket paperback reissue, first printing
cover painting by Carl Bobertz
better image than previously posted
May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print
one of the two non-series mysteries that he wrote while producing the Archers
cover art by Frank Kalen