Saturday, February 8, 2025

Edrien King

Title: Nurse of the Crystalline Valley 
Author: Mary Dunne Collins
Published: ©1977
Publisher: 
Illustrator: Edrien King

Her signature is in the lower right-hand corner. 

Meredith Hale looked out of the bus window and gloried in what she saw: beautiful snow-capped mountains, snug little houses tucked beneath snow-covered trees. A virtual paradise! Meredith had left her unhappy home to accept a nursing job at Mountain Hospital in Crystalline Valley. Her mother, Blanche, and her second husband, Warren, had separated, and Blanche relied on Meredith for companionship. But now Meredith was out of that unhappy, tense situation. She was looking forward to a more relaxed life with Jill Nolan, a longtime friend, and three other girls. She would be able to make a living and enjoy the resort area. Skiing had always been one of her favorite outdoor activities, and the prospect of winter sports during her off-hours was very exciting indeed. What she did not anticipate, however, filled her with increasing confusion. Her relationship with Lotus Johnson, one of her housemates, deteriorated, and she became involved with several men: Günther Wahl, the handsome ski instructor; Lyle Slater, a millionaire’s son; and Bruce Engel, manager of the valley’s lodge. Bruce was everything she could hope for, but he did not seem at all interested in her. She had hoped, by moving to Crystalline Valley, to find peace, but instead, all she found was more confusion.


Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Lou Marchetti

Title: The Nurse with the Silver Skates
Author: Virginia McDonnell
Publisher: Ace
Published: ©1964
Illustrator: Lou Marchetti 

He is not credited, but this is very much in his style.

Inga Larsen, showing a newborn babe to its father, a baby she had helped to deliver …
Inga Larsen, soaring through the air on ice skates amid the gasps of thrilled spectators …
Which was she, student nurse or rink champion? And which was the right man for her? Scott Marshall, ice-skating master, idol of her childhood, or Dr. Thor Eriksen, whom she had secretly loved for three years? Inga Larsen just did not know, and both men were not making it any easier for her to find out!

Mort Engel

Title: Log Camp Nurse
Author: Arlene J. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Avon
Published: December 1966, ©1966
Illustrator: Mort Engel

He is credited on the copyright page.


Beautiful Tove Jensen was reared in a lumber camp, but after nursing school she moved to Cosmo Beach at the center of the movie industry. There she found love for the first time. A tragic accident called her back to the lumber camp where she met Dr. Bryden. Then she was torn between two loves. Would it be the courageous lumber camp doctor or the handsome California M.D.? The decision would forever alter her life.

 



Sunday, May 5, 2024

Allan Kass

Title: Beauty Doctor’s Nurse
Author: W.E.D. Ross
Published: November 1973, ©1971
Publisher: Signet
Illustrator: Allan Kass

His signature runs along the mans left arm.

Lovely blonde nurse Irene Hunt considered herself lucky to be working in such a fascinating field as plastic surgery. And her growing romance with handsome, readheaded Dr. Max Marshall promised a happy future. Then came the anonymous letter about Max that changed everything—that made her determined to put him out of her mind, to close the door on the past. But transferring to another hospital became more involved than she had anticipated. And even her friendship with the brilliant young plastic surgeon, Dr. Ralph Grant, became more than just a friendship. As Irene found herself drawing closer and closer to Ralph, Max made an unexpected reappearance, eager to resume the romance she thought was over. Could Irene trust her heart to lead her to true love …?


Monday, March 4, 2024

O. Whitlock

Title: Doctor’s Nurse
Author: Jennifer Ames (pseud. Maysie Sopoushek)
Published: ©1959
Publisher: Collins
Illustrator: O. Whitlock 

The artist’s signature is in the bottom right-hand corner. I have not determined who this artist is, so if you have any information, I’d appreciate it if youd share it in the comments section!

She promised not to marry … that was the condition on which Gail Stewart went with Dr. Grant Raeburn’s research unit to Hong Kong. Gail was as pretty a nurse as you could hope to see and Grant made her promise if she joined his staff not to marry for two years. That seemed easy for Gail loved Grant—and he never even noticed Gail as a woman! But when she met Brett Dyson in Hong Kong—well, things took on a very different hue …


Thursday, February 8, 2024

Harry Bennett

Title: Starring Suzanne Carteret, R.N.
Author: Diane Frazer (pseud. Dorothy Fletcher)
Published: Nov 1966, ©1966
Publisher: Pocket Books
Illustrator: Harry Bennett

His name is on the bottom of the illustration.

When, almost by chance, Suzanne Carteret was summoned as consultant on a television series devoted to nursing, it seemed to her a wildly exciting prospect. The entertainment world was a madly glamorous one and she was eager to penetrate it. But it proved far different from what she had imagined. Soon she found herself sucked into a vortex that threatened to carry her far over her head. Things began happening more quickly than she had ever imagined possible, and for a moment it even began to look as if she might be swept into a whole new career. Would it turn her head? Could she abandon nursing, for which she felt such a genuine vocation? And what about young Doctor Clive, with whom she had thought herself in love? The decision was hers. Or was it? Everything moved with a rapidity that made her feel sometimes that she no longer had any control over her life!

Henry Fox

Title: The Midnight Wards
Author:
D.K. Jennings
Published: not stated
Publisher: Badger Books
Illustrator: Henry Fox

His signature is in the left-hand corner.

Throughout the world, large hospitals are much the same: exuding an air of bustling efficiency, men and women who supervise the lives of their patients, overseeing a hubbub of intense activity that goes on around the clock. At the old and elegant St. Stephen hospital on the outskirts of London, it had been a fortnight of the usual minor incidents, common in such a complex of wards and isolated departments. To Veronica Devlin, just beginning her hospital work as a nurse, everything seemed much larger than life. The doctors, surgeons and ward sisters were either gods or ogres and her small mistakes were great tragedies. Then the Resident Surgeon, Ralph Conway, found himself facing a crisis which threatened not only his career but the whole future of the hospital, a crisis which meant he had to challenge the authority of Sir William Carruthers, the senior Surgical Consultant, and attempt to uproot policies and ideas which were as old and as established as the hospital itself and somehow, Veronica found herself drawn, against her will, into this personal conflict of ideologies.