Cool it on the Beach

1950 White Circle reissue

if you look closely at the paperback that she’s reading on the cover of Zero Cool, you’ll see it is Grave Descend, another Hard Case Crime with cover art by Glen Orbik. It is a great little piece of self-reference.

2010 Subteranean hardcover – cover art by Glen Orbik

2010 Subteranean Press

cover art by Glen Orbik

2010 omnibus of three novels Block and Westlake wrote together: A Girl Called Honey, So Willing, and Sin Hellcat

November 2014 release – cover art by Glen Orbik

November 2014

cover art by Glen Orbik

“TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS…
…and two robbers hired by a local crime boss manage to heist half a million dollars from an armored car. But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a blizzard coming down, the cops in hot pursuit, and a double-crossing gambler and a murderous park ranger threatening to turn this white Christmas blood red.”

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

one of a handful of thrillers Crichton wrote under a pen name while in medical school