
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.


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

better image than previously posted

cove art repurposed for September 1949 issue of Ten Detective Aces
