cover art by William Reusswig
better image than previously posted
Carroll John Daly, “The Black Warning” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dressed to Kill” (Paul Pry)
J. Paul Suter, “Seconds of Doom” (Horatio Humberton)
Oscar Schisgall, “Death Under Glass” (Ed Graham)
Fred MacIsaac, “Ghost City Set-Up” (Rambler Murphy)
profile and letter from MacIsaac appear n p. 123
[updated with original art 8/14/25, cover updated 11/12/25]
Cover art for “The Perfect Victim” by James McKimmey, published by Dell in 1958. Gouache on board. 552×368 mm; 21 3/4×14 1/2 inches. Signed “Abbett” in right image.
Robert Stanley The Whipping Room Paperback Cover Painting Original Art (Designs Publishing Corp., 1952). An evocative image of a disheveled woman facing the fear of a whip that has been presented as the cover for three different publications: The Whipping Room (1952) by Florenz Branch, which was originally painted to show the whip held in a male hand; The Thing That Made Love (Uni, 1954) by David V. Reed, which used the image of the woman with a different background; and Warped Women (Beacon, 1956) by Janet Pritchard, featuring the painting as it exists now, reworked to make the male hand holding the whip female. Acrylic on 13″ x 17″ illustration board.
cover art by Jerome Rozen
[cover image updated 6/28/24]
Daughter of Satan, Women in Crime pulp digest cover, March 1948
Oil on canvas, 20 x 15 in.
Signed lower right
Oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
Signed lower left
SMB Noir 