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.

Mort Engel

Title: Reach for Tomorrow
Author: Georgia Craig 
Published: ©1960|
Publisher: Avon
Illustrator: Mort Engel

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

When Claire Frazier turned in her candy-striped probationer’s uniform for a pin reading Registered Nurse, she knew she owed a debt to those who had made her happiness possible. At once she set out to pay off her obligation with interest—and with love. To her patients, Claire gave time and understanding and the skill of her hands. To her fiancé, Dr. Richard Massey, she gave the devotion and tenderness of her heart. And both mocked her, abusing her good intentions. Disillusioned and burning with shame, Claire had to pick up and mend the pieces of her broken heart. The scene of Claire’s reunion with life and love is a world cruise. Among the fellow passengers who changed her life are the attractive second officer, a detective, a confidence artist, and a romantic teenager. And the ports of call on her emotion-filled voyage include a visit with a would-be suicide, a ship-wide search for a strangely missing passenger, and an expensive game of cards which might have been dishonest. 

Mort Engel

Title: Tread Softly, Nurse Scott!
Author: Marilyn Ross (pseud. W.E.B. Ross)
Publisher: Paperback Library 
Published: October 1966, ©1966
Illustrator: Mort Engel

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner. 

Nurse Judy Scott alone knows that Dr. Graham Holland, chief surgeon of the hospital where she works, has made a terrible mistake. Because of his error, a patient may die. Only one person believes Judy—Dr. John Randall, her fiancé. But for reasons of his own, Dr. Randall refuses to do anything. He even threatens to end their romance if Judy exposes Dr. Holland’s mistake. With her future and her patient’s life at stake, Judy faces her most crucial decision as a nurse—and as a woman.

Mort Engel

Title: Holiday for a Nurse
Author: Joanne Holden
Published: ©1965
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Illustrator: Mort Engel

He is credited on the back cover.

Valerie Wyndham, R.N., was looking forward to a few weeks of relaxation at a mountain cottage. But Valerie was far too pretty to escape attention, and too much a dedicated nurse to deny a request for help. That was how she found herself involved with the darkly handsome Adam Balin, owner of the famous Balin estate. But the charming young doctor, Ted Meredith, hated Adam and wanted Val to himself. And there was someone else—someone who had made it clear that Valerie was unwanted, and would stop at nothing to get her out of the way …

Mort Engel

Title: The Nurse’s Dilemma
Author: Vera Cleaver
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Published: December 1967, ©1966
Illustrator: Mort Engel

He is credited on the back cover.

“I’d better warn you, Nurse … I’m going to marry Stephen Templeton myself—so forget any ideas you may have in that line. I’m not ashamed of my money—I like what it can buy.” Helen Harrison’s arrogance infuriated Nurse Jean Wheaton, but she was comforted by the memory of the  handsome surgeon’s embrace. “I doubt very much if you’ll buy Dr. Templeton. Is that all you wanted to tell me?” “I just thought I’d warn you,” Helen said. “Steve is not the man to settle for … second best.” Burning with fury, Jean went to meet Dr. Stephen Templeton. Second best! Anyway, I have no intention of falling in love with him—or have I …?” A beautiful young nurse, a rich society girl, and a handsome surgeon become involved in a triangle that rocks Monroe General Hospital.

Mort Engel

Title: Emergency Calling Nurse Mallon
Author: Jeanne Bowman
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Published: August 1965, ©1964
Illustrator: Mort Engel

He is credited on the back cover.

Beautiful Marjory Mallon welcomed the surging drama of her new job at Southern Emergency Hospital, for it helped her forget a private sorrow and a crushed romance. But as the young nurse plunged herself into the hectic routine of critical accidents and crucial operations, she found that her own heart was imperiled by the attentions of a handsome intern and a dashing resident ...

Mort Engel

Title: Nurse Shelley Decides
Author: Arlene Hale
Publisher: Pyramid
Published: ©1964
Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

“Are you after a fat paycheck, Nurse?” The contempt in Dr. Adam Victor’s voice stung Shelley—but it was true she was leaving the hospital to nurse a private patient, and Miriam Bleeker was very rich indeed. The handsome young doctor looked on Shelley as a deserter—and what made it worse was that Dr. Victor had declared war on the whole Bleeker family … and anyone who was with them was his enemy!

Mort Engel

Title: A Nurse Named Courage
Author: Florence Stuart
Publisher: Pyramid
Published: January 1967, ©1965
Illustrator: Mort Engel

He is credited on the back cover.

Soon after she became a nurse at Shields memorial Hospital and met Dr. Burt Ives, Courage Williams found she’d have to live up to her name. Handsome, intense and moody, Bert was known as much for his iron will as for his brilliance as a surgeon. He was not used to being contradicted. But Courage could be stubborn too, and she and Bert clashed violently over the treatment of a handsome young ward patient. Before long, Courage began to wonder whether Bert’s anger was professional—or jealous … and whether she was reacting so strongly to him as a nurse—or as a woman.

Mort Engel

Title: Millionaire Nurse
Author: Katherine Powell
Publisher: Pyramid
Published: ©1965
Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

$1,160,303.54 is a fortune any way you look at it. And that’s what penniless young Andrea Corbury discovered she’d inherited—just minutes after receiving the R.N. degree she’d struggled so long for. Andrea faced a hard and fateful decision. Would she practice the profession she was dedicated to? Or would she live the life of a gay society heiress—and earn the scorn of the handsome young doctor who loved her?

Mort Engel

Title: Tread Softly, Nurse Scott!
Author: Marilyn Ross
Publisher: Paperback Library
Published: October 1966, ©1966
Illustrator: Mort Engel

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

Nurse Judy Scott alone knows that Dr. Graham Holland, chief surgeon of the hospital where she works, has made a terrible mistake. Because of his error, a patient may die. Only one person believes Judy—Dr. John Randall, her fiancé. But for reasons of his own, Dr. Randall refuses to do anything. He even threatens to end their romance if Judy exposes Dr. Holland’s mistake. With her future and her patient’s life at stake, Judy faces her most crucial decision as a nurse—and as a woman.

Mort Engel

Title: Jill Nolan’s Choice
Author: Adeline McElfresh
Publisher: Dell (#4230)
Published: May 1963, ©1963
Illustrator: Mort Engel

He is credited on the back cover (as Mort Engle).

Why, Jill asked herself, had she left Bradburn Memorial Hospital to work in the wild and open backwoods country? Was it because she had felt unsure of her love for Giff? Had she hoped, during the year that she would be away from his operating table and his kisses, to test their love? And was that, she thought uneasily, the reason she could turn to Clay Ramsdell so easily—because she did not, truly and deeply, love Giff? Yes, Jill thought, absence makes the heart grow fonder … but of whom?

Mort Engel

Title: Daredevil Nurse
Author: Arlene J. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Pyramid Books (#K-1115)
Published: December 1964, ©1964
Illustrator: Mort Engel

He is credited on the back cover.

Dr. Stag Shaylor fascinated Nurse Robin Reid—and most of the people in her home town. Why did the gifted young surgeon live alone in the strnage old house? Who were his late-night visitors? Were his unusual medical practices only unorthodox—or dangerous fakery? Robin had to find out the answers—for she sensed that Stag Shaylor could be more exciting—and dangerous—than Robin’s daring hobby of skydiving!

Mort Engel

Title: Special Nurse
Author: Maud McCurdy Welch
Publisher: Lancer Books (#72-151)
Published: 1967, ©1959
Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

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 ...

Mort Engel

Title: Young Nurse Rayburn

Author: Arlene J. Fitzgerald

Publisher: Pyramid Books

Copyright: 1964

Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

A career in a big-city hospital … marriage to a brilliant, popular surgeon—or a life of service to the Indians and lumbermen of the rugged timber country…and the thrill of working beside a virile, dedicated young doctor? As Nurse Rheva Rayburn hesitates between two ways of life, drama and mystery explode—and in a night of crisis and terror, she makes her fateful choice.

Mort Engel

Title: Big Town Nurse

Author: Patti Stone

Publisher: Pyramid Books

Copyright: 1965

Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

Beth Patton, R.N. left her small-town home for an exciting year in a city medical center—a year which was to shape the course of her entire career. The patients, the surgery, the tense excitement of “big time” medicine, thrilled the young nurse. But before long, Beth was in trouble. First, she disobeyed orders and was lucky not to be fired. Second, two handsome young doctors were romantically interested in her—and Beth knew that a wrong choice would be a disaster to her as a woman and a nurse.

Mort Engel

Title: Five Nurses
Author: Rose Williams (pseud. William E. Daniel Ross)
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Copyright: 1964
Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

Five beautiful nurses … They had been close friends in nursing school and now they had gathered for their fifth reunion … There was –
Louise: the class belle, now desperately ill
Linda: who had married for money and lived to regret it
Harriet: who shut out love for her career
Janice: unbalanced by the deaths of husband and child
Shirley: with her heart torn between a film tycoon and a devil-may-care reporter…
A dramatic story of the highly eventful lives of five lovely young nurses.

Mort Engel

Title: Jill Nolan, Surgical Nurse
Author: Adeline McElfresh
Publisher: Dell
Copyright: 1962
Illustrator: Mort Engel

He is credited on the back cover.

As a skilled, disciplined surgical nurse, Jill Nolan was well prepared to assist at critical operations. But, as a woman in love, could she forget that the man fighting for his life on the operating table was Tom Ratcliff, her attractive, wealthy fiance?

Mort Engel

Title: Nurse of Queen’s Grant
Author: Joanne Holden
Publisher: Pyramid
Copyright: 1965
Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.

When lovely young nurse Anne Carter inherited a New England estate, complete with mansion, her life found strange new paths and problems. The possession of Queen’s Grant meant the fulfillment of a cherished dream, yet brought her bitter enemies. For another thing, she was faced with a choice among three attractive men: Dr. Steve, who loved her perhaps too possessively; Bob, the fascinating stranger with a mysterious past; and Brad, the “boy next door”—who happened to be a millionaire! No matter what happened, Anne Carter knew her life would never be the same!

Mort Engel

Title: Private Duty for Nurse Peggy
Author: Madeleine Sault
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Copyright: 1965
Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

The dark old house was haunted by the memory of Mrs. Reinley’s lovely granddaughter—and when Peg Merritt went there as the old lady’s private nurse, she could almost feel the dead girl’s presence … But Peg’s real problems came from two handsome doctors—rivals for Mrs. Reinley’s money, and for Peg herself!

Mort Engel

Title: Nurse Liza Hale
Author: Jane Corby
Copyright: 1965
Publisher: Pyramid
Illustrator: Mort Engel
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

“I’m so frightened!” The terrified girl who had appeared out of the night at Liza’s door clung to her, sobbing.
“Please,” Liza said, “try to tell me what’s the matter.”
“The noises,” the girl said. “As if someone was tearing down the house. It’s haunted! But my husband won’t believe me. He thinks I’m …”
Psychiatric nurse Liza Hale thought she knew what lay behind her lovely neighbor’s panic—the tragedy of mental illness. But the truth was stranger and more sinister—and, disregarding the warning of the young doctor who loved her, Liza soon found herself in a maze of mystery of menace … with no way out!