Tag: random house hardcover

Day of the Ram x 3

1956 Random House hardcover

1957 Bantam reissue

2nd with Southern California private eye Brock Callahan

cover art by Mitchell Hooks

better image than previously posted

1989 No Exit reissue from the UK

1978 Random House first edition hardcover

1978 Random House first edition hardcover, a modern classic

cover illustration by Stan Zagorowoski

1st novel with private eye C.W. Sughrue with begins with the masterful and oft-quoted sentence: “When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.”