cover art by Robert Stanley
1948 Rinehart hardcover, this the 1950 Dell mapback
Hamilton’s second novel, his first Matt Helm was 13 years away
evil smile on that dame’s face…
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pen name – one of many – of David Dresser
1949 Dodd hardcover, this the later 1950 Dell mapback reissue
cover art by Robert Stanley
featuring Miami private eye Michael Shayne
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cover art by Robert McGinnis
January 1959 Dell reissue, first printing
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January 1964 Dell reissue, first printing – McGinnis artwork again
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1956 Dell paperback original, 8 short stories
cover painting by Robert Stanley
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Oil on board, 13 x 8-1/2 inches (33.0 x 21.6 cm) (sight) – Not signed
The present work is published on the cover of Dividend on Death by Brett Halliday (Dell, 1952).
first published novel under the name Brett Halliday, first Michael (or Mike) Shayne novel
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1944 Detective Novel Classic digest
cover art by Robert Stanley
Oil on board, 12.625 x 8.75 in. (sight), not signed
Dell #386, 1950.
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cover art by Paul Rader
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cover art by Robert McGinnis
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[post updated 10/12/25]
Robert Stanley The Whipping Room Paperback Cover Painting Original Art (Designs Publishing Corp., 1952). An evocative image of a disheveled woman facing the fear of a whip that has been presented as the cover for three different publications: The Whipping Room (1952) by Florenz Branch, which was originally painted to show the whip held in a male hand; The Thing That Made Love (Uni, 1954) by David V. Reed, which used the image of the woman with a different background; and Warped Women (Beacon, 1956) by Janet Pritchard, featuring the painting as it exists now, reworked to make the male hand holding the whip female. Acrylic on 13″ x 17″ illustration board.
cover art attributed to Robert Stanley
[cover updated 3/1/25]
[cover and title page updated 4/28/25]
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…
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