May 30, 2019
Suspicious Circumstances by Patrick Quentin, cover by Robert A. Maguire (1960)
Robert A. Maguire is the definitive noir paperback illustrator and, while this cover is a bit unusual for him in being a single character portrait (Maguire usually painted entire scenes), it does feature one of his classic femmes fatales. "Patrick Quentin" was one of the pseudonyms used by writers Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Richard Wilson Webb, Martha Mott Kelley, and Mary Louise White Aswell when writing crime novels. Most of the Patrick Quentin novels are out of print in the English-language world, although they still retain some popularity in Europe.
