Eric Mudge-Marriott

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Author	Title	Publisher	Notes
Herbert Adams	The Judas Kiss	Macdonald	1955
Leslie Bailey	The Gilbert and Sullivan Book	Cassell	1956
Charity Blackstock	Dewey Death	Heinemann	1956
Robert Charles	Mission of Murder	Robert Hale	1965
Tod Claymore	Reunion in Florida	Cassell	1952
Lester Dent	Lady So Silent	Cassell	1951
Lois Edwards	My Heart in Hiding	Cassell	1951
William Haggard	The Hard Sell	Cassell	1965
Frank Lester	Death in Sunlight	Robert Hale	1965
J.T. McIntosh	One Hundred in Three	Museum Press	1956
Alexander McKee	The Friendless Sky	Souvenir Press	1962
Chad Oliver	Shadows in the Sun	Max Reinhardt	1955
James Salter	The Hunters	Heinemann	1957
Bart Spicer	The Day of the Dead	Hodder & Stoughton	1956

Further Information Kindly Supplied By Nicholas Flower, Esq. During the decade 1958-68 I was head of production and design at Cassell. In that capacity I was responsible for the typographic design, and the commissioning of jacket designs, for all our publications. I also designed a number of jackets myself. Eric Mudge-Marriott, who lived in Tenterden in Kent, was one of the artists we used consistently throughout the late '50s and the '60s. Cassell was John Ross Macdonald's UK publisher and Eric did most of the jacket designs for his thrillers, and they are representative of his finest work. At the time he was the master of air-brush design and his best work is immediately recognizable. I do not have a collection of Ross Macdonald books and cannot give you a full list of the titles for which Eric did designs. Outstanding M-M covers I do remember are The Ivory Grin, The Drowning Pool, Experience with Evil, Find a Victim and The Doomsters. By the way, Kenneth Millar used the pseudonym John Ross Maconald on his Lew Archer books in the USA and UK until John D. Macdonald started publishing. At that point, to avoid confusion, he dropped the "John".

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