crime fiction – Page 346

August 20, 1932 issue

The Crime of My Life, 10 Story Detective cover, February 1949
Oil on board
22 x 15 inches (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed lower right
Dated and titled on the reverse

[cover image updated and title page added 3/18/25]

James T. Farrell, “The Old Flame”
Frank Kane, “Lead Ache” (Johnny Liddell)
Richard Deming, “The Blonde in the Bar”
Jack Webb, “Broken Doll“

Oil on canvas
29.75 x 20.75 in.
Signed lower left

image updated 12/6/23

August 1948 issue

better image than previously posted

cover art by Norman Saunders

Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”

Paula Elliott, “Salt on a Siren’s Trail” (Boden)

John D. MacDonald, “Cavaliers Make Good Corpse”

Don James, “Quick Buck – Quick Kill”

Roderick Lull, “Gentleman’s Vengeance”

Ted Stratton, “Butterfly’s Bier”

[updated 5/11/25]

cover art by C. Clyde Squires

1949 Dodd Mead hardcover

cover art by Robert Stanley

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).