
cover art by Allen Anderson
better image than previously posted

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Merle Constiner, “Mr. Bettleman’s Blisters” (The Dean)
D.L. Champion, “A Leg on Murder” (Insp. Allhoff)
Dale Clark, “Necktie Party” (Plates O’Rion)
Marvin L. De Vries, “There Goes the Doctor”
John Lawrence, “Blood Test”


James Alfred Meese (American, 1917-1971)
cover of The Beautiful and Dead by Ross MacRoss (Gold Medal, 1954).
Oil on board, 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right: Meese


Mead Schaeffer (American, 1898-1980)
“Hide the Body”, Cosmopolitan Combined with Hearst’s International interior, January, 1939
oil on canvas, 35 x 24 inches (88.9 x 61.0 cm)
Initialed and dated lower left: MS / 33

1953 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
his seventh novel under his name. his supervisors at the CIA thought it was great cover for an agent to be a writer