signet paperback – Page 10

1966 Signet reissue

completed by Ed McBain after Rice’s death

cover painting by Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted

pseudonym of Lee Borden

1957 Signet paperback original

cover art uncredited but looks like James Meese?

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).

Goodbye to Berlin, paperback cover, 1952
Oil on board
24-1/2 x 20-1/2 inches (62.2 x 52.1 cm)
Signed lower left