
February 1969 Signet paperback original
cover art by Robert McGinnis
background is his version of Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70, 1961


February 1969 Signet paperback original
cover art by Robert McGinnis
background is his version of Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70, 1961


Farewell My Lovely, 1980
Acrylic and pencil on board, 18-1/4 x 14-1/4 inches (46.4 x 36.2 cm)
Initialed lower left

Oil on board, 27 x 16.5 in.
Signed lower left

This illustration appeared on the cover of Lionel White’s crime noir novel, To Find a Killer, Signet Books #1241, 1955


Oil on board, 19.25 x 14.25 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
Murder for Madame by Adam Knight, Signet #920, 1952.

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar
[updated 6/23/25, corrected 4/3/26]

Dodging a Bullet, pulp cover
Oil on canvas, 35 x 25 in.
Signed lower left


~ Francis K. Allan, “Model for Death”, ‘reprint, not originally BM’, 2nd appearance in BM
~ Agatha Christie, “The Face of Helen”, reprint, not originally in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Once Around the Clock”, Flashgun Casey, reprinted from May ‘41, reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)
~ Robert C. Dennis, “Ride a Green Hearse”, last of 10 stories in BM, has the honor of being the last original story published in BM
~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “The Paper Doll”, last of 8 stories in BM [Hagemann does not note if this is original or a reprint]
~ Richard Sale, “Nail Down the Lid”, ‘reprint; not from BM’
LAST ISSUE OF THE ORIGINAL MAGAZINE
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop


Gouache on board, 12.25 x 9.5 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
paperback cover for Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay, Avon, 1966.

1952 Harper hardcover in the US
Winner of the first ever Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1954