This Is It, Michael Shayne by Brett Halliday (Dell 957, August 1957). #ThisIsItMichaelShayne #BrettHalliday #1950s #book #books #paperback #cover #coverart #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #DellBook #DellBooks

The Deadly Truth by Helen McCloy (Dell 107, 1946). #TheDeadlyTruth #HelenMcCloy #1940s #book #books #paperback #Cover #CoverArt #artwork #DellBooks #DellBook #Crime #mystery #Thrillers #thriller #thrillerbooks

The Corpse That Never Was by Brett Halliday (Davis Dresser) (Dell 1498, July 1964). Cover Art by Robert McGinnis. #TheCorpseThatNeverWas #BrettHalliday #1960s #books #book #paperback #CoverArt #artwork #cover #RobertMcGinnis #crime #ThrillerReads #thriller #mystery #thrilelrs #DellBooks #DellBook

Spring Harrowing by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Dell 98, 1945). #SpringHarrowing #PhoebeAtwoodTaylor #1940s #books #book #paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #crime #thriller #thrillers #MYSTERY #DellBooks #DellBook

#BookReview: Love at First Fright by Nadia El-Fassi My Review: The blurb for this book, while it isn’t exactly wrong, isn’t right either. Those elements are all there, but, if I were saying this aloud I’d be saying that the “accent is on a different syllable” but with “syllable” pronounced with its accent in the wrong place. Verbally, the difference is clear, even though it sounds like it might be subtle in description.

#BookReview: Love at First Fright by Nadia El-Fassi @nadiaelfassi.bsky.social #DellBooks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #contemporaryromance #paranormalromance #ghosts

Mapback Homage
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Flight Of An Angel by Verne Chute (Dell 470, 1951). Cover Art by Robert Stanley. #FlightOfAnAngel #VerneChute #1950s #book #books #paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #thrillerbooks #DellBooks #DellBook #RobertStanley

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ruth Belew Ruth O'Neal Belew was an American illustrator. They created the rear cover artwork of at least 150 Dell Mapback novels between 1942–1951. Dell's earliest paperbacks featured a map on the back cover depicting some element of the book, whether it was a city block, apartment, or a cattle trail in the old west. This innovative idea has made Dell's "Mapback" books coveted among collectors. In his catalog-index of Dell paperbacks, William Lyles theorized that Ruth Belew drew nearly all of the more than 500 maps that appeared on the back of Dell paperbacks between 1942–1951, though because records of Dell's artists are scarce, he was only able to confirm that she had drawn around 150. (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_O%27Neal_Belew

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ruth Belew Images that make up the collage were crafted from the following two resources: swallace99. (2011). Ruth Belew Mapbacks. Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/56781833@N06/albums/72157674456392417/ and Dell. (2022). Dell Mapbacks. https://bookscans.com/Publishers/dell/dell.htm From Boston Rare Maps ... a rare women laboring within the male fraternity of mid-20th-century paperback designers. Biographical information about Belew is sparse, but she was evidently a Chicago illustrator, who—working from clues and descriptions in each book’s narrative—rendered her crime scenes on cardboard, at twice the finished paperback dimensions. She often added nifty identification banners and numbered “keys” to help readers locate rooms or landmarks integral to the plot. Dell editors double-checked the accuracy of her drafts, requested any necessary changes, and then sent them to lithographic colorists who’d fill her compositions with arresting hues. https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/dell-mapback-collection-1943-to-1951/

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ruth Belew Cover page of the article by: Heller, S. (1994). Mapbacks: high end of a low art. Print, 48, 48–53. With a map titled: Map - Showing Sussex where action takes place in "The Invisible Man"

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Ruth Belew Illustrator who created the back cover map artwork of 150 Dell novels from 1942–1951. More info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3 #RuthBelew #MapBack #Illustrator #DellBooks #MapDayMay25 William C. Wonders Map Collection #WCWMC

Flirting with Disaster: A Novel by Naina Kumar

Flirting with Disaster: A Novel by Naina Kumar
US pub date - 1/14/25
#FlirtingwithDisaster #Dell #DellBooks #romace #womensfiction #arcreader #alwaysreading #romancereader #bookblogger #January2025books

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