Gouache on board, 18.5 x 12.5 in.
Signed lower center
This illustration appeared on the cover of Leslie Edgley’s novel, Tracked Down, Ace Double #D-45, 1954.
pseudonym of Robert Bloomfield, joint pen name with Mary Edgley
1947 Doubleday hardcover as The Angry Heart
October 15, 1933 issue
T.T. Flynn, “The Bell-Tower Terror” (Tony Grenville)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Crimson Scorpion” (Small, Weston & Burke)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Mr. Murder, MD” (Det. Henderson Coe)
Edward Parrish Ware, “Talons of Doom” (Commissioner Durant)
better image than previously posted
[original art added 8/14/25]
The Brass Shroud, paperback cover, 1958
gouache and tempera on board, 19.75 x 14.625 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
JOHN WALTER SCOTT (American, 1907-1987)
Mystery Tales, May 1939
Oil on canvas
29.5 x 20.5 in.
Not signed
better image than previously posted
Henry Kane, “Watch the Jools” (Peter Chambers)
[updated with original art 8/5/25]
January 1956 subscription issue – different cover from the newsstand issue
gouache on illustration board, 13″ x 18″
[post updated 1/1/24]
SMB Noir 
