attributed to Victor Olsen
Tag: oil on board
1952 Lion paperback – cover art by Harry Schaare
cover art by Harry Schaare – 0il on board, 18-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches
1952 Lion paperback original, William Ard, as by Thomas Wills
first non-Dane novel, first of two under the pen name Wills
Robert Maguire x 2
Robert McGuire (American, 20th Century)
Oil on board, 28-1/4 x 20 inches (71.8 x 50.8 cm)
first published as the cover of Room to Swing, 1958, Pyramid paperback original
then repurposed for 1961 Beacon paperback original
cover art by James Meese
James Alfred Meese (American, 1917-1971)
cover of The Beautiful and Dead by Ross MacRoss (Gold Medal, 1954).
Oil on board, 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right: Meese
1955 Signet paperback original – cover art by James Avati
oil on board, 30.5 x 20 in.
signed with artist’s monogram lower left
1955 Signet paperback original
better image than previously posted
1956 Signet paperback original – cover art by Paul Rader
Paul Rader (American, 1906-1986), not signed
Girl Running , Signet 1956
oil on canvas board, 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Adam Knight was a pen name of Lawrence Lariar
So Rich, So Lovely and So Dead x 2
oil on board, 16 x 12-1/2 inches (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Zuckerberg
1953 Pocket reissue
better image than previously posted
1961 Dell reissue
[post updated 12/11/25]
1954 Signet reissue – cover art by George Ziel
George Ziel (American, 1914-1982)
A Kiss Before Dying, 1954 Signet reissue
oil on board, 25-1/4 x 20 inches (64.1 x 50.8 cm), not signed
Edgar award for Best Novel, 1954
June 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto, oil on board, 26 x 18.5 in.
better image than previously posted
H.H. Stinson, “A Window in My Coffin” (PI Kerry Monahan)
Peter Paige, “Death – On the House”
John D. MacDonald, “Suicidal Journey”
Ken Kessler, “Operation Murder”
Seymour Irving Richin, “Violence for Vicky”
Stanley C. Vickers, “Noose of Retribution”
Edward William Murphy, “Killings on the Conscience”
