original art – Page 22

cover art by Harry Schaare

Oil on board, 17.25 x 13.25 in. (sight)
Not signed

Dead in Bed by Day Keene, Pyramid books, G448, 1959.

1st with Hawaiian private eye Johnny Aloha

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Oil on board, 13 x 8-1/2 inches (33.0 x 21.6 cm) (sight) – Not signed

The present work is published on the cover of Dividend on Death by Brett Halliday (Dell, 1952).

first published novel under the name Brett Halliday, first Michael (or Mike) Shayne novel

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The Living Statue, pulp cover, c. mid-1930s
Oil on canvas, 32 x 25 in.
Signed lower right

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

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’, 2^nd 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’

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[post updated 12/13/24]