Tag: private eye

March 1947 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake

March 1947 issue

cover art by Albert Drake

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~ Dale Clark, “The Corpse with the Bloody Nose”, last of 28 O’Hanna stories, last of 32 appearances in BM

~ Merle Constiner, “Dead on Arrival”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 10th of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’, reprinted in Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock (Steeger, 2020), 11th of 12 stories in BM

~ Robert C. Dennis, “Out of This World”, 2nd of 6 with ‘William (Willie) Carmody, Confidential Investigations & Margaret O’Leary, writer, Hollywood, WC is first-person narrator’, 2nd of 10 stories in BM

~ William Campbell Gault, “A Murder for Mac”, reprinted in Hot-House Homicide: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Mortimer Jones (Steeger, 2925), 2nd of 5 with PI Mortimer Jones, 3rd of 9 stories in BM

~ Coleman Meyer, “You’ll Never Grow Old”, ‘Hill Cartright, auto racer, tells it’, author’s 1st of 2 stories in BM

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March 1930 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

March 1930 issue

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cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer

~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “Death in the Pasig”, Jo Gar, 2nd of 24 in BM, reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Omnibus (1946), reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Hat Trick”, Ned Beaumont, 1st of 4 stories that will go together to make up The Glass Key (published 1931), 41st of 45 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Boom Town”, 12th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 16th of 39 stories in BM

~ Horace McCoy, “Frost Rides Again”, 5th of 14 Frost stories with ‘Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger’, 6th of 17 stories in BM, reprinted in The Black Mask Boys (1985, Morrow) as “Frost Flies Alone”

~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Bitter Business”, 3rd of 6 stories with ‘Phil Craleigh, once brilliant lawyer, now a drunk, given to bouts of reform’, 12th of 17 stories in BM as a couple

~ Peter G. Thomas, “The Bell in the Fog”, ‘River pirates in NYC’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Oval Face”, ‘Mal Ourney; part 4 (of 5), ‘The Crime Breeders’, presented as separate stories rather than conventional serial’, published in hardcover in 1930 by Knopf as Green Ice, 38th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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Frank Miller’s “Famous Detective Pin-Up” portfolio

Frank Miller’s “Famous Detective Pin-Up” portfolio was published as PinUps at the back of Renegade Press’s “Ms. Tree Thrilling Detective Adventures”, #s 1-4, back in 1983.

Playback x 24

1958 Hamish Hamilton, true 1st edition

1958 Houghton Mifflin hardcover

1959 Danish edition

1959 Brazilian edition in Portuguese

1960 Cardinal reissue – cover art by William Rose

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1961 British edition

1961 Finnish edition

1961 Australian edition from Horwitz – cover art by Theo Batten

1965 British edition – cover design by Alan Spain

1968 Pyramid reissue – cover art by Joseph Lombardero

1968 German edition

1975 Penguin edition – cover design by James Tormey

1977 Ballantine reissue, 1st print (owner’s copy) – cover art by Richard Waldrep

later 1977 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep

1979 French edition

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1986 French edition

late 8os UK Penguin reissue

1988 French translation

1988 Vintage reissue

1990 Finnish edition

1998 Catalan edition

1999 French edition

1999 Scandinavian edition (unsure of country)

2002 Spanish edition

2004 French graphic novel edition

2011 Penguin UK reissue

[updated 3/8/26]

The Long Goodbye x 17

1953 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first edition of this novel

1954 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first US edition – (owner’s copy)

cover illustration by Lorraine

final Marlowe novel, an American classic and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel

1954 Hammish Hamilton book club edition

August 1955 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – (owner’s copy)

cover art by Tom Dunn

1963 Penguin UK reissue

1964 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

Penguin UK 1966 reissue

1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep

1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover design by James Tormey

1972 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1973 Ballantine movie tie-in reissue (owner’s copy)

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Richard Williams

1985 Ballantine reissue

1988 Vintage reissue

1988 UK Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Penguin reissue

2002 Penguin UK reissue

2013 Canadian HarperCollins reissue

The Little Sister x 15

1949 Hamish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first by three months – cover art by C.W. Bacon

1949 Houghton Mifflin hc, 1st edition – cover art by Boris Artzybasheff (owner’s copy)

1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by James Neil Boyle

1950 Pocket reissue – cover art by William Shoyer (owner’s copy)

1957 Penguin reissue

1957 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger

1966 Penguin UK reissue

1966 Penguin movie tie-in

1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Ballantine reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1979 Penguin reissue

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Colin Thomas

1988 Vintage/ Black Lizard reissue

1989 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

The Lady in the Lake x 14

1943 Knopf hardcover

1946 Pocket reissue – cover art by Tom Dunn

1952 Penguin UK reissue

1959 Cardinal reissue – cover art by Morgan Kane

1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1979 Penguin UK reissue – cover by James Tormey

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1989 Penguin UK reissue

1994 Thorndike edition

2010 Penguin Classics UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2016 Penguin UK reissue

The High Window x 23

1940 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition

1943 Hamish Hamilton UK 1st ed.

1956 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – cover art by James Meese (owner’s copy)

1945 Pocket reissue – cover by E. McKnight Kauffer

The Brasher Doubloon (20th Century Fox, 1946). Very Fine- on Linen. Three Sheet (41″ X 78.5″).

adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The High Window – noted in tiny print on the poster

1956 Penguin UK reissue

1959 Penguin reissue

1961 Horwitz reissue from Australia – cover art by Theo Batten

1965 Pocket reissue

1967 Hamish Hamilton reissue, Fingerprint Edition

1969 Pocket reissue

1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1988 Penguin/Random House reissue

1989 Penguin UK reissue

1992 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1993 Thorndike large print edition

2002 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin Classics UK reissue

2013 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

The Big Sleep x 27

1939 Knopf advanced reading copy

1939 Knopf hardcover

1939 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover

1942 Avon digest, Murder Mystery Monthly No.7, first softcover release of this American classic/ cover art by William Frost

1943 Avon paperback – cover art by Paul Stahr

1945 Knopf hardcover reissue – inscribed to director John Houseman

1946 World Press movie tie-in

1948 Pocket reissue – cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

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1950 Pocket reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)

1952 Penguin UK reissue

1962 Penguin UK reissue – cover art by John Sewell

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1966 Penguin reissue

1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover designed by James Tormey

1973 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Amsel

watercolor cover art by Richard Waldrep, 13.75″ x 9.50″

1976 Vintage reissue (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage trace paperback reissue

1979 Pan Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1988 Vintage reissue

1988 Vintage reissue

1988 Knopf reissue

2000 Penguin UK reissue

2005 Penguin UK reissue

2009 Hammish Hamilton hardcover

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2014 Penguin UK reissue

2022 Vintage reissue

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note ~ there are many, many more covers for this book, both in English and foreign languages… but I had to stop somewhere