
watercolor or gouache?

1962 Lancer paperback original
pen name of E. Howard Hunt
better image than previously posted

watercolor or gouache?

1962 Lancer paperback original
pen name of E. Howard Hunt
better image than previously posted


cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 20.5 x 14.75 in.
better image than previously posted
Craig Rice & Mark Hope, “Case of the Vanishing Blonde” (Ed Bradbury)
Tiah Devitt, “The Merry Wives of Murder” (reprint from 1942)
Larry Holden, “Lady-Killer”
Richard Goggin, “For Old Crime’s Sake”
V.E. Thiessen, “Lady in Hades”
John Bender, “Tying Room Only”
Andrew Holt, “Death on a Platter”
Rufus Bakalor, “Love, Honor and Slay”


September 1951 Best True Fact Detective

cover art repurposed for

November 1955 issue Special Detective


1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover


1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas


1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper



Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH


oil on board, 16 x 12-1/2 inches (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Zuckerberg
1953 Pocket reissue


1961 Dell reissue

[post updated 12/11/25]

George Ziel (American, 1914-1982)
A Kiss Before Dying, 1954 Signet reissue
oil on board, 25-1/4 x 20 inches (64.1 x 50.8 cm), not signed
Edgar award for Best Novel, 1954
