Saturday, October 25, 2014

Mort Engel

Title: Special Nurse
Author: Maud McCurdy Welch
Publisher: Lancer Books (#72-151)
Published: 1967, ©1959
Illustrator: Mort Engel
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His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

Cathy Linton had planned to spend her life as a country nurse, assisting her father. Then he died. And she suddenly found herself the opposite of an heiress: her father had borrowed $10,000, and it was up to Cathy to repay the loan. It looked hopeless, even with her job in the hospital in Memphis. There would be no time for love, no time for marriage ... This had to include even her friendship with the handsome young surgeon, Dr. David Lorimer. He had a brilliant career before him, and everything a girl could want in a husband. But what could Cathy offer him? It seemed impossible. Yet there had been that lovely summer day by the river when he had tried to kiss her ...

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Harry J. Schaare

Title: Doctor on Test
Author: Kerry Mitchell
Publisher: Dell (#2009)
Published: December 1965, ©1963
Illustrator: Harry J. Schaare

He is credited on the back cover.

Keeping jet test pilots in top physical condition should have been easy for an experienced doctor like Bennet Grady—but coping with a headstrong lady psychiatrist, while balancing a dangerous romantic triangle at the same time, made it almost impossible ... until he decided to learn a few ground rules for love.

Lou Marchetti

Title: Crisis at Waite Memorial
Author: Kerry Mitchell
Publisher: Dell (#1560)
Published: April 1965, ©1963
Illustrator: Lou Marchetti

His signature runs along the right side of his hospital gown.

Nine young girls were in Waite Memorials maternity ward. The situation called for a doctor with sympathy and understanding—a doctor like Brian Temple.