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cover art by Willard Downes?
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his 3rd novel, a tale of municipal corruption, published two years before his first Lew Archer
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