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.

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