
1965 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

1992 Xanadu trade paper reissue from the UK

1994 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard reissue


1965 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

1992 Xanadu trade paper reissue from the UK

1994 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard reissue


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.



1979 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks


1992 Warner reissue – cover art by Gary Kelley

1996 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue




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]

January 1977 Vintage paperback original, 1st printing
edited and with an introduction by Herbert Ruhm
Carroll John Daly, “The False Burton Combs” (Dec, 1922)
Peter Collinson, “The Road Home” (Dashiell Hammettt, Dec, 1922)
Dashiell Hammett, “The Gutting of Couffignal” (Dec, 1925)
Norbert Davis, “Kansas City Flash” (Mar, 1933)
Frederick Nebel, “Take It and Like It” (June, 1934)
Raymond Chandler, “Goldfish” (June, 1936)
Lester Dent, “Angelfish” (Dec, 1936)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Leg Man” (Feb, 1938)
George Harmon Coxe, “Once Around the Clock” (May, 1941)
Merle Constiner, “The Turkey Buzzard Blues” (July, 1943)
William Brandon, “It’s So Peaceful in the Country” (Nov, 1943)
Curt Hamlin, “Killer Come Home” (his only Black Mask story, July, 1948)
Paul W. Fairman, “Big-Time Operator” (his only Black Mask story, July, 1948)
Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace” (May, 1949)
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