
Oil on board, 30 x 20.25 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
Counterspy Express by A. S. Fleischman, Ace D-57, 1954


Oil on board, 30 x 20.25 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
Counterspy Express by A. S. Fleischman, Ace D-57, 1954


Kate by Chet Kinsey (Beacon books edition, #B225, 1959)

artwork repurposed for Student Nurses by Gail Jordan [aka Peggy Gaddis] (Uni books #37 1952)

The dates given for these works makes no sense. If the original cover was for a 1959 paperback (which seems likely as the artwork matches), then how could the second book be from 1952? The only way that works is if the “original artwork” is the retouched work from the 1952 book…

James Avati (American, 1912-2005)
Oil on board
13 x 18 inches (33.0 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of A Murder in Paradise by Richard Gehman (Avon, 1956).


Glen Orbik
Oil on board
21-1/4 x 16 inches (54.0 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left

October 2013 Hard Case Crime reissue
one of a handful of thrillers Crichton wrote under a pen name while in medical school