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Killer in the Rain x 6
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First UK Edition, preceding all others. The first collection of these stories.
“Killer in the Rain” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1935)
“The Man Who Liked Dogs” (Black Mask Magazine, Mar. 1936)
“The Curtain” (Black Mask Magazine, Sept. 1936)
“Try the Girl” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1937)
“Mandarin’s Jade” (Dime Detective Magazine, Nov. 1937)
“Bay City Blues” (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1938)
“The Lady in the Lake” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1939)
“No Crime in the Mountains”(Detective Story Magazine, Sept. 1941)
introduction by Philip Durham
1st Pocket edition, December 1965
June 1973 Bantam reissue
cover art by Tom Adams
July 1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Robert Golden
[post reworked 7/4/25, 3/1/26]
Pickup on Noon Street x 7
cover art by Tom Dunn
better image than previously posted
cover art by Robert Maguire
1965 Pocket reissue (7th printing, October of ’65)
better image than previously posted
June 1973 Ballantine reissue*
cover art by Tom Adams
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print*
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
cover art credited to Richard Waldrep
“Pickup On Noon Street” (Detective Fiction Weekly, May 1936, originally titled “Noon Street Nemesis”)
“Smart-Aleck Kill” (Black Mask Magazine, July 1934)
“Guns at Cyrano’s” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1936)
“Nevada Gas” (Black Mask Magazine, June 1936)
these stories were first gathered into a book in 1950, Houghton Mifflin’s The Simple Art of Murder
[*covers from owner’s own copies]
[updated 6/6/25]
The Simple Art of Murder x 2
June 1972 Ballantine reissue, 1st print
cover art by Tom Adams
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
includes:
“The Simple Art of Murder” (Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944)
“Spanish Blood” (Black Mask Magazine, Nov. 1935)
“I’ll Be Waiting” (Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 1939)
“The King in Yellow” (Dime Detective Magazine, Mar. 1938)
“Pearls are a Nuisance” (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
[covers from owner’s own copies]
Trouble is My Business x 3
June 1973 Ballantine reissue
cover art by Tom Adams
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd printing
includes:
introduction by Raymond Chandler, originally from The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin, 1950)
“Trouble is My Business” (Dime Detective Magazine, Aug. 1939)
“Finger Man” (Black Mask Magazine, Oct. 1934)
“Goldfish” (Black Mask Magazine, June 1936)
“Red Wind” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1938)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
[covers from owner’s own copies]
[updated 3/3/26]
Farewell, My Lovely x 21
1940 Hammish Hamilton UK first edition
1943 Pocket reissue – cover art by H. L. Hoffman
1964 Pocket reissue, 14th printing – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)
cover art by James Neil Boyle
1951 Pocket reissue, 10th print – cover art by Paul Kresse (owner’s copy)
1950 Penguin UK reissue, 3rd print
1966 Penguin reissue – cover design by Bob Brooks
1973 Penguin reissue – cover design by James Tormey
1973 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)
1976 Ballantine movie tie-in
1976 Penguin movie tie-in
1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
1994 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
2009 Penguin Classics UK reissue
[updated 3/3/26, 3/8/26]
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