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.
Cool it on the Beach
Tag: nicholas blake
cover art by Armand Seguso
Feb 1960 Dell paperback reissue, first printing
originally published in 1956 in the UK as A Tangled Web
better image than previously posted
SMB Noir 