oil on board, 17-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches (44.5 x 36.2 cm)
Signed center left side: Kimmel
May 1952 Signet paperback, first printing
5th novel, a stand-alone thriller
better image than previously posted
[updated with original art 11/5/25]
August 1958 Signet reissue, first printing
cover art by Robert Maguire
better image than previously posted
ONE OF THE FINEST COVERS EVER
1969 Signet paperback, third printing
cover art by Robert McGinnis
1966 Signet paperback original
pen name of E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and writer. Hunt served for many years as a CIA officer. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the Nixon White House “plumbers” — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing “leaks.“ Hunt, along with Liddy, engineered the first Watergate burglary, and other undercover operations for Nixon. In the ensuing Watergate Scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
His CIA superiors thought being a writer of spy fiction was a good cover.
1955 Crown hardcover
November 1956 Signet reissue
cover art by Robert Maguire
4th with Kansas City private eye Johnny April
3rd print March 1964
[both property of the host]
February 1969 Signet paperback original
cover art by Robert McGinnis
background is his version of Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70, 1961
Oil on board, 27 x 16.5 in.
Signed lower left
This illustration appeared on the cover of Lionel White’s crime noir novel, To Find a Killer, Signet Books #1241, 1955
Oil on board, 19.25 x 14.25 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
Murder for Madame by Adam Knight, Signet #920, 1952.
pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar
[updated 6/23/25]
SMB Noir 