Rap Party: “Seven Hungry Men!”

Toasting The Rap Sheet’s first decade with a cover countdown.



Seven Hungry Men!, by Lionel White (Rainbow, 1952).
Illustration by George Gross.

Four down, six more to go ...

Two-fer Tuesdays: Death Is So Inconvenient

A twice-monthly pairing of book covers that just seem to go together. Click on either of these images to open up an enlargement.



Enjoy, on the left, the suggestive front from Too Young to Die, a 1958 Gold Medal release by Lionel White. Although the artwork isn’t credited, it may have been created by Charles Binger. Meanwhile, the cover on the right comes from Too Busy to Die (Dell Books, 1944), the second of H.W. Roden’s Sid Ames/Johnny Knight mysteries. Gerald Gregg was responsible for that cover painting.

READ MORE: “Archived Review: H.W. Roden – Too Busy to Die,” by Steve Lewis (Mystery*File).