1946 Pocket reissue – cover art by Tom Dunn
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
2010 Penguin Classics UK reissue
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]
SMB Noir 