William G. Bogart - The Queen City Murder Case
Harlequin Books 68, 1950
Cover Artist: Doug Rickard
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Hugh MacLennan - Two Solitudes
White Circle Books CD 540, 1952
Cover Artist: Rickard
"A novel of conflict."
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E. Phillips Oppenheim - The Great Impersonation
Harlequin-Pan Books 221, 1953
Cover Artist: Rickard
"The famous secret service novel."
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Fletcher Knight - Daughters of Desire
News Stand Library 16-A, 1950
Cover Artist: D. Rickard
D. Rickard was an illustrator of Canadian paperbacks in the 1940s and early 50s. He/she signed his work "DR" "R" and "Rickard".
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Al Palmer - Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street
News Stand Library 84, 1949
Cover Artist: D. Rickard
"The best selling novel about Montreal."
Al Palmer was a well known police reporter and commentator for Montreal newspapers who was 36 when the first of his two books for Export Publishing Enterprises Inc. was published in 1949. This was the novel Sugar-puss on Dorchester Street. In 1950 Export published his non-fiction work Montreal Confidential as News Stand Library (NSL) 134.
Sugar-puss is a thinly veiled autobiography where Palmer is Jimmy Holden "a reporter (for The Chronicle) who would rather buy clothes than eat - and frequently did". Sugar-puss is "Gisele Lepine - fresh as the cool clean air of her Laurentian village and eager with the realization of a five-year dream - Montreal."
Sugar-puss was published in two editions - as NSL 84 in November 1949 and NSL 20A in February 1950. The first edition was for sale in Canada, the second in the US. There were two different covers, the first by D. Rickard, the second by Sid Dyke. In addition the US edition was published with a dust-jacket by an unknown artist.
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