Seattle Mystery Bookshop

January 1953 issue

cover art by H.J. Ward

Final issue of the title, and the last pulp appearance of the Lone Ranger

James Avati (American, 1912-2005)

Oil on board
13 x 18 inches (33.0 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left

This illustration was published as the paperback cover of A Murder in Paradise by Richard Gehman (Avon, 1956).

Enrich (Spanish, 1939)

Detective Calendar illustration, circa 1974
Oil on gouache on board
14-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches (36.2 x 26.0 cm) (image)
Signed lower right

Gouache on board
20-1/2 x 17-1/4 inches (52.1 x 43.8 cm) (image)
Signed lower right

better image than previously posted

Ernest Chiriacka – aka Darcy – (American, 1920-2010)

The Tussle
Watercolor and ink on board
15-1/4 x 13-3/4 inches (38.7 x 34.9 cm)
Signed with pseudonym lower right