Category: paperback

The Girl in the Death Seat

The Girl in the Death Seat, paperback cover
Gouache on board
18-1/2 x 12-3/4 inches (47.0 x 32.4 cm) (image)
Not signed



The present work is on the cover of

The Girl in the Death Seat by Fan Nichols (Ace, 1961).

original title, Be Silent, Love

Simon and Schuster hardcover, 1960

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

Meet Me at the Morgue x 10

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

1954 Pocket reissue – cover art by Clark Hulings

better image than previously posted

1954 Great Pan Book edition

cover art by Sam Peffer

May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print

cover art by Frank Kalen

better image than previously posted

1967 Pocket reissue

1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print

1970s Bantam reissue

1984 Bantam reissue

1991 Warner reissue

2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

[updated 9/13/25, 8/20/26]