
Robert Maguire (American, 1921-2005)
The Flesh Was Cold paperback cover, 1957 Signet reissue
oil on Masonite, 24 x 16 inches (61.0 x 40.6 cm), not signed


Robert Maguire (American, 1921-2005)
The Flesh Was Cold paperback cover, 1957 Signet reissue
oil on Masonite, 24 x 16 inches (61.0 x 40.6 cm), not signed


1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover


1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas


1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper



Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH


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


Frank McCarthy (American, 1924-2002)
The Manchurian Candidate paperback cover, 1962 Signet reissue
Gouache on board, 22-7/8 x 13 inches (58.1 x 33.0 cm) (image)



1960 Horwitz paperback original in Australia

1960 Signet paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips


Robert McGinnis (American, 1926-2025), Not signed
The Wayward Wahine, Carter Brown, 1966 Signet reissue
Gouache on board, 19-1/4 x 15 inches (48.9 x 38.1 cm)



1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English
3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani


Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed
– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –


1957 Phantom edition from Australia



1952 Hale hardcover in the UK

1953 Dutton hardcover, a Guilt Edged Selection

Oil on board, 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Al Rossi
The present work is published as the cover of The Double Shuffle by James Hadley Chase (Signet, 1954)



1963 Horwitz reissue from Australia

1958 Horwitz paperback original from Australia

The Blonde, Carter Brown paperback cover, 1958 Signet
Gouache on board, 28 x 18 inches (71.1 x 45.7 cm) (image)
Signed faintly lower right: Barye


undated Dutch edition – cover art by Moriën

1967 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted


later Signet reissue – cover art by Barye Phillips
1948 Harper & Row hardcover
first with private eye Barr Breed

better image than previously posted


cover art by Mitchell Hooks