cover art repurposed for 1950 Popular Library release
cover art by James Meese
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
Hide the Body
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
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
1961 Signet paperback original – cover art by Robert Abbett
1961 Signet paperback original
cover art by Robert Abbett
18th in the series with private eye Peter Chambers
better image than previously posted
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