Willa , by “Gilbert Terrell,” aka Evans B. Harrington (Dell, 1961). As book collector Tim Hewitt wrote on Facebook earlier this year, ...

The Smugglers , by Timothy Green (Pocket, 1970). Published in hardcover in 1969, The Smugglers is a non-fiction book about how “smuggli...

Warning: Artistic inspiration drawn from book titles may vary. Left: The Sailcloth Shroud , by Charles Williams (Dell, 1961); cover art...

(Above) Murder Is My Business , by Brett Halliday (Dell, 1963). I hadn’t expected to be writing again about Ohio-born artist and illustra...

I had known for a long while that Iowa crime novelist Max Allan Collins wanted to pen a sequel to Dashiell Hammett’s genre-defining 1930 pri...

“The world’s most superficial book reviews.” How can you not love a Web site that promotes its contents so unabashedly? Judge a Book by It...

(Above) The Case of the Duplicate Daughter , by Erle Stanley Gardner (Pocket, 1962). Cover illustration by Robert McGinnis. Art Scott, co...

The February Plan , by Robert L. Duncan (Ballantine, 1978). Duncan, who was born in Oklahoma and died there in 1999 at age 71, was a hi...

Warning: Artistic inspiration drawn from book titles may vary. Left: The Judas Hour , by Howard Hunt (Gold Medal, 1951); cover artist un...

Part of a celebration of Robert McGinnis’ XCIXth birthday . With this being the final day of Killer Covers’ 99th birthday tribute to fam...

Part of a celebration of Robert McGinnis’ XCIXth birthday . Timbalier , by Clayton Coleman (Dell, 1969). The blog SpookyBooky notes the...

Part of a celebration of Robert McGinnis’ XCIXth birthday . The Sun Princess , by Sylvia Pell (Avon, 1981). I observed on this page a...