Tag: private eye

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.

1973 Harper UK reissue

1974 Bantam reissue

1979 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks

1989 Fontana UK reissue

1992 Warner reissue – cover art by Gary Kelley

1996 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

2024 UK Penguin reissue

The New Yorker, March 3, 2025

May 1949 issue

May 1949 issue

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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill” (Cash Wale)

Theodore Sturgeon, “Die, Maestro, Die!”

Carroll John Daly, “Half a Corpse” (Race Williams)

Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”

R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”

Robert Carlton, “Sealed with a Kiss” (Mike Brent)

John D. MacDonald, “You’ll Never Escape”

later UK edition, includes five pieces from US May 1949 edition

Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill”

Theodore Sturgeon, “Die Maestro, Die!”

Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”

R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”

Ted Palmer, “The June Thrill Docket”

stories by Daly, Carlton and MacDonald omitted

October 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1949 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams Cooks a Goose”

John D. MacDonald, “Target for Tonight”

William P. McGivern, “Hunt Her in Hell”

Raymond Drennan, Jr., “He Woke Up Dying”

Preston Grady, “Killing’s Too Easy”

Charles Larson, “My Crime – Your Punishment”

Private Practice of Michael Shayne x 4

4th book released in this long-running series. first published as a hardcover by Holt in 1940

1943 Dell reissue

cover art by William Strohmer

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1950 Dell mapback reissue

cover art by Robert Stanley

cover art by Robert McGinnis

1958 Dell reissue

1965 reissue

cover art by Robert McGinnis

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January 1942 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

January 1942 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

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~ Walter C. Brown, “The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk”, 1st of 4 Sgt. Dennis O’Hara, aka Sah-Jin – NYC Chinatown squad

~ D.L. Champion, “What’s Money?”,  6th of 26 with Sackler, 7th of 30 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnell, Jr., “5 Shrieks at 10”, 7th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 7th of 20 stories in BM

~ J. Lane Linkletter, “The Shadowy Line”, last of 3 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “Bail Bait”, 6th of 10 with PI Cellini Smith, 8th of 12 appearances in BM

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