Sunday, March 1, 2026

Roger Hall

Title: Nurse with Wings
Author: Marguerite Mooers Marshall
Publisher: Corgi 
Published: ©1952
Illustrator: Roger Hall

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Edrien King

Title: Sharon Garrison, Clinic Nurse
Author: Phyllis Taylor Pianka
Published: ©1977
Publisher: to be determined

Illustrator: Edrien King

She is credited on the front dust jacket flap. 

Young Sharon Garrison was eager to start work as head of the clinic at KSEA-TV Media Center. She would be responsible for the running of the entire clinic and the care of all those who worked at the center. Her association with Mercy Hospital had ended on a sour note, after her uncle Elliott Garrison had been named hospital administrator. Suddenly friends and acquaintances treated Sharon with exaggerated caution or as if she could directly influence hospital policy, and the young nurse had felt it best to look for a new position. At the Media Center, Sharon also hoped to gain some insight into her parents. Concert musicians, they had sent Sharon to Boarding school and to live with her aunt and uncle rather than spending time with her. How could people be so absorbed with the entertainment industry that they neglected their own child? What was the fascination it held? Sharon quickly became involved in the center and caught up in its excitement. Charming and capable, she won the respect and affection of Skip Richardson, who was eager to give her a screen test, and Paul Hamilton, the handsome boss of KSEA-TV. And she even befriended the young picketer, Chuck Baker, who seemed to have a grudge against the station. Misunderstandings seem to be the rule rather than the exception in Sharon’s love life, however, and it is not until the exciting climax that the young nurse’s future seems certain.

Paul Anna Soik

Title: Nurse Brookes
Author: Kate Norway (pseud. Olive Norton)
Published: ©1957
Publisher:
Harlequin 
Illustrator: Paul Anna Soik

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner. 

Helen Brookes had left Byng’s Hospital to get married … and come back again, her engagement broken. She had made one distressing, almost disastrous mistake; now she would be more careful, she told herself, more clear-headed about her own emotions. All of which did not prevent her from falling in love with a surgeon who, it seemed, was not free to marry.


Allan Kass

Title: Society Nurse
Author: Jane Converse (pseud. Adela Maritano)
Published: ©1975
Publisher: Signet
Illustrator: Allan Kass

His initials are just below the car’s license plate.

Love sick. That’s what pretty Nurse Nina Bateman was, though she knew handsome, wealthy, dedicated Doctor Mark Danover was way out of her league. Then Mark asked her to take a private case, caring for a beautiful young heiress, Cindy Calvert, who happened to be Mark’s next-door neighbor. Was he looking for a competent nurse, or, as his manner suggested, was there something more behind Mark’s request? Everything seemed wonderful, until Nina met Cindy and her domineering mother. Nina realized before introductions were over that she couldn’t stand the haughty Mrs. Calvert. And what was worse, Mrs. Calvert made it obvious she thought Mark would make the perfect husband for Cindy! How could Nina compete for her heart’s desire against the ambitious scheming of her lovely young patient’s overpowering mother?

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Edrien King

Title: Nurse of the Crystalline Valley 
Author: Mary Dunne Collins
Published: ©1977
Publisher: Avalon
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 man’s 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 you’d 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. Couldn’t 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 Bossart’s 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 Bossart’s attention—and too good a nurse to ignore the needs of her patient. Before long she found herself entangled in an unexpected mystery, a strange romantic triangle—and 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 patient—everyone, 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 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. 

Lou Marchetti

Title: She Married a Doctor
Author: Dorothy Walker
Published: Aug 1962, ©1939 Liveright Publishing Corp.
Publisher: Popular Library
Illustrator: Lou Marchetti

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 ... 



John Duillo

Title: Shadowland
Author: Elaine Evans
Published: ©1970
Publisher: Magnum
Illustrator: John Duillo

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!

Harry Schaare

Title: Dr. Kildare Takes Charge
Author: Max Brand
Published: Oct 1962, 
©1940 Dodd, Mead and Co.
Publisher: Dell
Illustrator: Harry J. Schaare

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?...”


Robert Maguire

Title: Dixie Doctor
Author: Marcia Ford
Published: Sept 1962, ©1955 Marcia Ford
Publisher: Monarch Books
Illustrator: Robert Maguire

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. 

Saturday, September 16, 2023

H. Rogers

Title: Ann Kenyon: Surgeon
Author: Adeline McElfresh
Published: December 1970, ©1960
Publisher: Dell Candlelight
Illustrator: H. Rogers

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?