Category: paperback

cover art by Reginald Heade

Sweetheart With a Wreath, paperback cover, 1953
Watercolor and gouache on board with paper appliqué
14.25 x 9.25 in. (sight)
Signed lower left


This painting, originally depicting a blonde, was published as the cover for Curves Cause Trouble by Gene Ross, Leisure Library #21, 1953. The work was subsequently published as the cover of Sweetheart With a Wreath by Michael Storme, Harborough, 1953, for which the image was manipulated to illustrate a darker haired female in a black tiara.

The Uncomplaining Corpses x 4

1944 Detective Novel Classic digest

cover art by Robert Stanley

Oil on board, 12.625 x 8.75 in. (sight), not signed

Dell #386, 1950.

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1958 Dell reissue

cover art by Paul Rader

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1963 Dell reissue

cover art by Robert McGinnis

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[post updated 10/12/25]

cover art by Ray Johnson

Charlotte Jay, Beat Not The Bones, 1952 Avon reissue

Winner of the very first Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1954

Jay was the pen name of Geraldine Halls who was born in Adelaide, South Australia on December 17,1919. After writing just nine novels in her life and traveling to exotic locales with her husband, a UNESCO official, she died on October 27, 1996 in her hometown.

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