h.l. gates – SMB Noir

cover art by Lyman Anderson

Oil on board, 31 x 21in., signed lower left
January 1934, Alibi, premiere issue

[cover image updated 5/31/25]

cover art attributed to “Crair”?

cover art by J.W. Scott

better image that previously posted

H. L. Gates, “Blood on the Barbary Coast”

Conrad Gerson, “Machine Guns Down a Hill”

Edward Doherty, “Murder Washes Out”