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. 

Tom Miller

Title: Cynthia Doyle, Nurse in Love
Author:
Adelaide Humphries
Published: May 1961, ©1953
Publisher: Monarch Books
Illustrator: Tom Miller

He is credited on the copyright page.

What did it take to make Dr. Sellars notice her? wondered Nurse Cynthia Doyle. Oh, he was aware of her professionally. But it was discouraging to work by his side, to look at him, her heart thumping wildly, and get no recognition from him that she was a WOMAN as well as a NURSE. Couldnt he see that she was pretty? Couldn’t he see that she was flesh and blood and not an automaton? Cynthia decided it was high time she did something about the situation. But what—short of being brazen and forward—could a girl do to make Dr. Sellars see that he was the man for her, she the woman for him?

Darrell Greene

Title: Million Dollar Nurse
Author: Rebecca Marsh (pseud. Bill Neubauer)
Published: May 1967, ©1966
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Illustrator: Darrell Greene

He is credited on the back cover.

When pretty Dorothy Malloy left Buttrick Hospital to become wealthy Andrew Bossarts private nurse, her orderly world changed overnight. Young and handsome, Andrew Bossart was recovering from an accidental gunshot wound. His reputation as a dangerous ladies man made some people wonder if the shot had been an accident after all ... Despite Dorothy's determination to remain uninvolved, she was too attractive a girl to escape Bossarts attentionand too good a nurse to ignore the needs of her patient. Before long she found herself entangled in an unexpected mystery, a strange romantic triangleand a scandal that would rock the city ...

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Bern Smith

Title: Nurse Rivers’ Secret
Author: Anne Durham
Published: December 1965, ©1965
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Bern Smith

His signature is in the upper left-hand corner.

Everyone at Ripplegate General Hospital was tremendously excited when the film star Dawn Delaney was admitted as a patienteveryone, that is, except Nurse Nina Rivers, who knew Dawn only too well and dreaded the complications she would inevitably bring with her. 

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Elaine Duillo

Title: I Should Have Known
Author: Denise Robins
Published: Sept 1970, ©1961 Denise Robins
Publisher: Fawcett Gold Medal
Illustrator: Elaine Duillo

Her signature is in the lower right-hand corner.

Young Shelley Bray had fallen desperately in love with Esmond Torrington, the world-famous symphony conductor. She had tried to keep her passion a private thingto remain merely the governess of Esmonds children. But someone else had learned her secretsomeone who hated her. Someone jealous enough to destroy her. Shelley did not fear for herself. But now Esmonds destiny had become entwined with hers. She knew she must search alone through the dark shadows of his past. She did not know what she would find. She only knew that she had to save himno matter what the cost to her.