Robert McGinnis (American, 1926)
Gouache on board
10-1/2 x 13 inches (26.7 x 33.0 cm) (image)
Signed center left
Mike Shayne’s 50th Case, Dell reissue, 1965
pulp art by Robert McGinnis
Category: original art
cover art by James Avati
Goodbye to Berlin, paperback cover, 1952
Oil on board
24-1/2 x 20-1/2 inches (62.2 x 52.1 cm)
Signed lower left
cover art by Glen Orbik
Glen Orbik
Oil on board
21-1/4 x 16 inches (54.0 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
October 2013 Hard Case Crime reissue
one of a handful of thrillers Crichton wrote under a pen name while in medical school
cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
The Big Fix, paperback cover, 1960
Watercolor and gouache on board
10 x 13-3/4 inches (25.4 x 34.9 cm) (image)
Signed with pseudonym lower right
The present work is published on the cover of The Big Fix by Ed Lacy (Pyramid, 1960). It was also republished as an interior illustration in ‘The Demonstration’, Man’s Magazine, May 1964.
[background colored in by some nitwit…]
updated 12/20/23
July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
~ Charles J. Beckman, “Satan’s Step-Daughter”, cop Mike O’Connell, only story in BM
~ Harmon Bellamy, “Shutterbug’s Long Shot”, only story in BM
~ Owen Couey, “Bring Your Own Body”, only story in BM
~ Westcott D. Gouldner, “All Work and No Slay”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Jukebox Jungle”, last of 6 stories in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Lost in the Shrouds”, 5th of 6 stories with ’Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 7th of 8 stories in BM
~ Hank Searls, “Nice Girls Don’t Murder”, ‘Pete Butler, San Francisco private eye’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert Turner, “Nine Kills to Paradise”, 2nd of 4 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[post updated 6/1/24, 1/30/26, 3/1/26]
November 1933 issue ~ cover art by Delos Palmer
cover art by Robert McGinnis
1946 Dell mapback paperback original
February 1960 Dell reissue, 1st print
cover art by Robert McGinnis
July 1945 ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll
G.T. Fleming -Roberts, “Lady Killer!“
D.L. Champion, “Yuma Appointment”
Frances Beck, “The Last, Long Ride”
Cyril Plunkett, “Second Kill”
Henry Norton, “Cadaver Wanted—Dead or Alive!“
Frances M. Deegan, “Torch Song”
Robert C. Dennis, “Crabtree’s Favorite Corpse”
Francis K. Allan, “Stand-in for Death”
Day Keene, “Murder on My Mind”
Meet Me at the Morgue x 9
1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English
one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers
better image than previously posted
cover art by Clark Hulings
cover art by Sam Peffer
May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print
better image than previously posted
1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print
2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
[updated 9/13/25]
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