cover art by H.W. Scott
better image than previously posted
Kenneth Robeson (Paul Ernst) , “Murder on Wheels” (Richard Henry Benson – The Avenger)
Gary Barton (Schuyler Garratt Edsall), “Death’s Option”
Harold de Polo, “Hardboiled”
August 1934
cover art by Henry J. Soulen
Charles Wesley Copeland (American, 1924-1979)
Case of the Deadly Tease, For Men Only magazine cover, September 1963
Gouache on board
14-3/8 x 11-5/8 inches (36.5 x 29.5 cm) (sight)
Not signed
Glen Orbik
Oil on board
21-1/4 x 16 inches (54.0 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
October 2013 Hard Case Crime reissue
one of a handful of thrillers Crichton wrote under a pen name while in medical school
SMB Noir 
