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 patient—everyone, that is, except Nurse Nina Rivers, who knew Dawn only too well and dreaded the complications she would inevitably bring with her.
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 thing—to remain merely the governess of Esmond’s children. But someone else had learned her secret—someone who hated her. Someone jealous enough to destroy her. Shelley did not fear for herself. But now Esmond’s 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 him—no matter what the cost to her.
He is not credited, but it is very much his style.
The girls who fall in love with doctors may be like Nora Eaton—young, devoted, deeply involved with her man’s career. Or, they may be like Peggy Lyman—beautiful, greedy, reckless. Or like Ann Dutton, willing to sacrifice everything to ambition. Whatever kind of girls they are, all encounter the same dangers, the same temptations. Nearly all, like Nora, encounter a fascinating intruder such as Dr. Seth Tapley. Nearly every girl like Nora, suddenly finds she must make the most difficult decision of her life ...
His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.
A life of quiet routine, where the only hint of romance and excitement came from the pages of a book or a movie, made Caroline Ballard accept the mysterious summons to Shadowland. At first it was everything she had hoped for, being swept away in a Rolls-Royce without even a chance to change from her nurse’s uniform. But the dream began to sour when she met Shadowland, and its master. There was something demoniac about Baxter Marr that warned her away ... but something else equally strong made her accept his invitation to stay. Then she began to unravel the secrets of the old house—the horde of old movies in the cupola, the three coffins int he cellar—and the impossible identity of the dead woman in one of the coffins! What started as a dream soon turned to deadly nightmare, and Caroline knew that one of those coffins was meant for her!
He is credited on the back cover.
Nurse Mary Lamont faced Blair General’s chief-of-staff, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. “It’s true,” he told her, “Jim has gone—he left without even saying goodbye.” “But why?” Mary asked. “What could possibly have made him walk out on his brilliant career, on your confidence, and on my love?...”
His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.
Dr. Phil Abbott had planned his future carefully. He would finish his medical education, return to his home town, take over old Dr. Hudson’s practice, and then he would look for a wife. Everything was going perfectly ... Until he looked into the violet-blue eyes of Nurse Lorna Evans and found himself falling in love ... Until his best friend, Dr. Cal Hays, used his charm to sweep Lorna into his arms and out of Phil’s life ... Until the suspicious Dr. Carl Kreuse began working on the hospital’s atomic research project ... And until Phil was forced to make a decision that would challenge his loyalty to his country and his devotion to the woman he loved.
His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.
Ann Kenyon was young, beautiful and a brilliant surgeon. In the operating room, she was in superb command—but the outside world was different. No longer could Ann pretend to love Dr. Brill Crayden, so skillful, so cynical, so cold. To get away from Brill, Ann went to distant Ledbie Memorial Hospital, to find herself plunged into a battle that threatened her professional name and her personal reputation with vicious slander. Only a dedicated doctor would have challenged the powers blocking progress at Ledbie. Only a passionate woman would have fallen in love with a man claimed by another. Ann Kenyon was both—could she avoid paying the price in heartbreak?
His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.
Camilla’s selfish husband was responsible for more than the
car crash which scarred her and crippled both him and their daughter Laurie.
Yet he was still her husband—even though
she might love Philip Ancliffe, another badly injured patient at the hospital
where she worked.
His signature is in the upper left-hand corner of the illustration.
Dr. Duncan McRey was a most difficult person, thought
Jill Fernley, and almost as bad was Brenda Malling, her staff nurse. Jill loved
her work in St. Joseph’s Hospital, but hated the intrigues and friction of
community life. Brenda was jealous of Jill’s success, but why, oh! why had Dr.
McRey to be so unfriendly to nurses when he was so gentle with children? Was he
like that to all women? This was a question which came to concern Jill more and
more before at last she found the answer.
She is credited on the inside cover flap, and her signature is to the left of the nurse’s right elbow.
Women’s Hospital had
been founded by women and was staffed by women, and Julie Sheridan, who had
wanted to be a doctor but was forced to give up the dream because she must
educate her younger sister, found it infinitely satisfying to work there.
Everyone in the hospital was talking about the beautiful and wealthy Alice Danver,
who had just lost her baby. Mrs. Roger Danver had a grown son, and this baby
had been looked forward to with joy by Alice and her second husband. Mrs.
Danver was a VIP—not only was she a member of the board, but she was a
granddaughter of one of the founders—and most of the nurses would have been
delighted to be selected as the nurse to accompany Alice Danver home. Not so
Julie, who was bent on learning all that she could about her chosen profession.
The Danvers lived in a luxurious town house on New York’s fashionable East Side,
but Julie soon found that the household was presided over by an evil genius in
the person of the housekeeper, Hetty Brown, who dominated everyone there,
including Alice and Roger Danver. Life in the Danver home would have been
unbearable for Julie had it not been for Leo Cross, Alice’s son by a previous
marriage. Leo Cross didn’t really look like a knight in shining armor, but in
Julie’s eyes he was even more than that. Only Leo dared to stand up to the formidable
Hetty. It was Leo who precipitated the storm that finally freed the Danvers of
Hetty’s morbid dominance, and it was Leo who helped with Julie’s frivolous
young sister presented a problem too big for Julie to handle alone.
His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.
This is the story of Kay Somers, nurse, and Peter Raynal, a
popular and brilliant surgeon. The strongly opposed forces of their respective
characters bring them into a constant conflict which comes to a head when Kay
is confronted with the loss of her position at St. Jude’s Hospital, and the
breaking of her engagement to the ambitious young farmer who has been a
life-long family friend. The story is set against the background of Hospital
life and Kay’s own rural home, and brings into relief the diverse qualities of
her nature. Her gradual change of heart is brought about through her affection
for an ailing child, a reciprocated affection which pierces Kay’s natural
armour of reserve. It is the child Christine’s influence on Kay which forges
the first link of understanding between herself and Peter Raynal, an understanding
which is destined to change the whole course of Kay’s life and bring her the
joy and happiness which she had once believe lost to her for all time.
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Catharine Manton was beautiful and efficient, and “her”
operating theatre was perfectly run. Why, then, did the new R.S.O. declare that
he couldn’t possibly work with her, even if it meant that he—not she—would have
to leave the hospital?
His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.
Young Nurse Vivian’s
heart went out to the inmates at Clairmount County Correctional Facility. She
knew that a good nurse had to be unemotional, but she also knew that behind
those forbidding walls young girls were being treated like animals! In the hospital
recuperating from a near fatal clubbing she had received at the hands of some
would-be-escapees, Vivian found herself the center of city-wide attention.
Newspaper editorials lauded her heroism; the Mayor himself came to her bedside
to bestow civic awards. But when Vivian argued that the Facility ought to
rehabilitate its inmates instead of brutalizing them, the young nurse made a
powerful enemy of the Mayor whose plans called for closing the Facility and shipping
the girls off to adult prisons. It would take every bit of Vivian’s courage and
determination and the dedicated help of her fiancé—a young lawyer who
represented a group in opposition to the Mayor’s program—to save, and help the
inmates who knew Vivian Hartwell as their Prison Nurse.
His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.
As a child, she cried until she got her sister’s favorite doll. Then it was Belinda’s new hat, her best dresses and next her fiancé. Dazzlingly beautiful, Marian had little difficulty in changing her status from maid of honor to bride. And now she was threatening Belinda’s happiness once more. “I know she’s your sister, Belinda,” Dr. Peter Jahns warned. “But please be careful. Marian has no family loyalty. She proved that once. Don’t let her hurt you again!”
His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.
Madeline felt that she was on the brink of a completely new life when she left England to do a year’s nursing in a great Montreal hospital. But she found that, after all, she had already met on board ship—though he was said to be so unapproachable—Dr. Lanyan, a distinguished member of the staff; and one of the patients would be the beautiful (but very difficult) Mrs. Sanders whom she had nursed before, with her good-looking and attentive son among the visitors. Still, everything else—except her familiar, well-loved work—would be excitingly new, and she might even have occasion to work for Dr. Lanyon ...
His initials are at the base of the tree.
When
beautiful Melinda Fontane Excepted a new assignment during Mardi Gras time in
New Orleans, she found her patient to be a charming, if enigmatic, man. She
could not understand the veil of secrecy which surrounded his case. But when
the doctor in attendance turned out to be handsome Garth Woodward, an old
friend of Melinda’s, she was warned that her patient was a target for murder,
and that she, too, could be in danger. That was all Garth would tell her, but
he kept a close watch on his lovely young assistant—close enough to rekindle
Melinda’s deep feeling for him. Then, suddenly, midst the swelling frenzy of
the Mardi Gras, all disguise is dropped, and Melinda learned to the real
identity of her mysterious patient—and discovered to the true face of love …
His signature runs along the bottom of the Nurse’s dress.
“Let’s have it,” Dr. Brownlee said to Henry Franklin, a very
influential member of the Board of Trustees of Cranston Hill Hospital, with a
wife who was an important member of the Women’s Auxiliary.
“Well, this
newspaper fellow came to see Clara, and it seems you have someone on your staff
here who shouldn’t be on the staff of any self-respecting hospital.”
“You mean one of our doctors?” Brownlee asked, suddenly alert.
“Not a doctor. A nurse. Geraldine Addams.”
Dr. Brownlee sat up straight. “Geraldine Addams? What about her?”
“I gather that she was a pretty notorious playgirl, that she posed for some
rather startling photographs, that she was even involved in a hit-and-run
accident. You wouldn’t want to retain someone like that on your nursing staff I’m
sure, Lyman. Seems she’s in the children’s ward. It’s not the best of
situations, is it?”
His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.
A woman doctor, Lucy found, is still suspect to her male
colleagues. “We teach you and train you,” they argue, “and then what happens? You
marry!” Well, Lucy announced, she wouldn’t. She had finished with love and
marriage since Johnny Eglington had let her down so badly, and now she could
come back without fear of any complications, to the district where Johnny and
his wife still lived. She explained this to Johnny himself, to Michael Dare,
her old friend, and to her chief at the Melfield Hospital, that clever surgeon
Paul Brandon. Extraordinary that none of them seemed to be quite convinced!
His signature is in the lower right-hand corner, and he is also credited on the back cover.
As a student nurse, Kathy Martin knew her senior year
would be hard—with new responsibilities and longer hours. But she also knew
there were beautiful, happy days ahead … there were her friends at the
hospital, and, above all, there was Steve. But suddenly Kathy’s world clouded
over … a missing locket … a hospital crisis … and a handsome new patient whose
gentle sensitivity drew Kathy toward his own shadowy world … Suddenly Kathy’s
heart had to choose: duty—or love?
Her signature is above the nurse’s shoulder, and she is also credited inside the dust jacket.
In a way, it was like a vacation—being nurse to wealthy and arthritic Mrs. Wendell at her luxurious estate, Idlerest, in the Florida Keys. Mrs. Wendell played bridge every afternoon, and when there was a fourth—and usually there was—Katrina was free to swim or do anything she liked. Still, it became a bit boring with no one around but middle-aged people. That was why Katrina welcomed the girl on the beach—a rather strange girl, with wide-set gray eyes and a disconcerting habit of saying exactly what she thought. Even before Katrina learned that Mary Cordell was under observation by a psychiatrist visiting at her uncle’s home, she had decided that Mary was “odd,” to say the least. But Mary’s brother was quite another story. Personable, wealthy, with a Government job in Washington, and a sense of humor as sharp as Katrina’s own, Martin Cordell was the answer to any maiden’s dream … When bronzed, athletic-looking Captain Paul Williams—Mrs. Wendell’s partner at bridge whenever she could snare him—began to show an interest in Mary, Katrina knew there would be trouble. Victor Brierly, Mary’s uncle and guardian, had no intention of relinquishing the reins to Mary’s fortune. The stage was set—with Katrina an unwitting participant in a drama worthy of the mysterious and often dangerous Keys. Setting out for an innocent game with Mary, Katrina found herself, instead, a prisoner on Paul Williams’ reconverted yacht, the Conch Shell. Katrina takes matters into her own hands in a night that threatens to end for her in the dark and menacing waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
His signature is on the bottom of the illustration.
When, almost by chance, Suzanne Carteret was summoned as a 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 rapidity that made her feel sometimes that she no longer had any control over her life!
He is credited on the back cover.
At last she wore the white cap and precious pin of a registered nurse. Now there could be an apartment of her own—and a career. She was young and pretty and the world was hers ... But all too quickly that world became overcrowded with attractive and persuasive men— One, a promising surgeon, who said he worked best with Carolyn at his side. Another, a young widower, who demanded her help ... and her time. And a carefree bachelor who wouldn’t let anyone but Carolyn nurse him through a grave illness. They all wanted Carolyn Cutler, the nurse, but only one loved Carolyn Cutler, the woman.
