1949 Ivy Washburn hardcover

1950 Readers Choice Library #8,
cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff




1947 Curl release with this title

1948 Quinn release as Death About Face

Canadian 1951 Harlequin edition
cover art by George Shane


this the 1953 Ace Double reissue with original title

1958 Dell release as The Fatal Foursome
1st Johnny Liddell novel

Robert Maguire (American, 1921-2005)
The Flesh Was Cold paperback cover, 1957 Signet reissue
oil on Masonite, 24 x 16 inches (61.0 x 40.6 cm), not signed


watercolor or gouache?

1962 Lancer paperback original
pen name of E. Howard Hunt
better image than previously posted


cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 20.5 x 14.75 in.
better image than previously posted
Craig Rice & Mark Hope, “Case of the Vanishing Blonde” (Ed Bradbury)
Tiah Devitt, “The Merry Wives of Murder” (reprint from 1942)
Larry Holden, “Lady-Killer”
Richard Goggin, “For Old Crime’s Sake”
V.E. Thiessen, “Lady in Hades”
John Bender, “Tying Room Only”
Andrew Holt, “Death on a Platter”
Rufus Bakalor, “Love, Honor and Slay”


September 1951 Best True Fact Detective

cover art repurposed for

November 1955 issue Special Detective


1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover


1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas


1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper



Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH
