crime fiction – Page 326

cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

Gouache on board
21 x 14 inches (53.3 x 35.6 cm) (image)
Initialed lower right

1958 Harper hardcover

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).

Bang! Gang World cover, May 1934
Oil on canvas
19-3/4 x 19-3/4 inches (50.2 x 50.2 cm)
Not signed

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

The Girl in the Death Seat, paperback cover
Gouache on board
18-1/2 x 12-3/4 inches (47.0 x 32.4 cm) (image)
Not signed

The present work is on the cover of

Simon and Schuster hardcover, 1960

Robert McGinnis (American, 1926)

Gouache on board
10-1/2 x 13 inches (26.7 x 33.0 cm) (image)
Signed center left

Glen Orbik
Oil on board
21-1/4 x 16 inches (54.0 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left

one of a handful of thrillers Crichton wrote under a pen name while in medical school

first published by Mysterious Press, hardcover, 1987

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hard as Nails” (Gilbert E. Best)

Norbert Davis, “The Gin Monkey” (Max Clark)

Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Corpse Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)

Frederick C. Davis, “Tracks of the Turtles” (Oke Oakley)

Oscar Schisgall, “Murder as the Crow Flies” (Phil Drury)

Michael Kennedy, “Bodyguard” (Det. Cassidy)

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

[post updated 1/14/24]