1st Pocket edition, December 1965

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”

Meet Me at the Morgue x 9

1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English

one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers

better image than previously posted

1954 Pocket reissue

cover art by Clark Hulings

1954 Great Pan Book edition

cover art by Sam Peffer

May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print

cover art by Frank Kalen

better image than previously posted

1967 Pocket reissue

1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print

1984 Bantam reissue

1991 Warner reissue

2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

[updated 9/13/25]