A Challenge for Nurse Melanie

Title: A Challenge for Nurse Melanie
Author: Isabel Moore
Copyright: 1963
Publisher: Ace
Illustrator: Bob Schinella

His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.

Melanie Woods had all the qualifications of a fine nurse—intelligence, quickness and dedication. But one fault threatened her brilliant career; she placed people ahead of rules. So when Melanie, acting almost instinctively, performed an emergency tracheotomy with only a penknife and a key, the Director of Nurses gave her a final warning. Although Melanie promised to obey hospital rules in the future, could she live up to her promise when a dying man requested the one thing forbidden to him?

Wayneston Hospital

Title: Wayneston Hospital
Author: Elizabeth Kellier
Copyright: 1963
Publisher: Ace
Illustrator: Lou Marchetti
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

Wayneston was a very small village hospital, having only one resident doctor, the young Chief of Staff, Ian Collington-King. And when Susan Brent came to work there as a staff nurse, the enigmatic doctor immediately roused her curiosity. Susan’s puzzlement grew after she confided her feelings to her fiancé, handsome Brian Draycott. For Brian was sure a scandal was attached to Dr. King’s name, and for his own purposes Brian was anxious to uncover it. Why had the brilliant young surgeon chosen to hide away in Wayneston? What had Brian to gain by discovering Dr. King’s secret? And why did Susan find herself in the storm center of an emotional battle between two men in her life?

University Nurse

Title: University Nurse
Author: Arlene Hale
Copyright: 1967
Publisher: Ace
Illustrator: Lou Marchetti

He is credited on the back cover.

Sara Arnold, the nurse at Heights University, knew what it was to go beyond the call of duty, to help sick or troubled students. But she needed love, too, and she couldn’t share Noel with so many of his devoted—and beautiful students. Sara loved the dedicated young professor, but how could she accept just a small corner of his life when someone like Hal offered her his whole world? For Hal was the kind of man who would give up all for the woman he loved. As a responsible nurse, Sara could understand Noel’s dedication to his career, but sometimes even a girl like Sara, usually so full of common sense, had trouble choosing between what reason dictated and her heart demanded.

Nurse Craig

Title: Nurse Craig
Author: Isabel Cabot
Publisher: Ace (#D-532)
Copyright: 1961
Illustrator: Martin Koenig

His signature is in the lower right-hand corner, and the original art is attributed to him.

Calling Nurse Linda

Title: Calling Nurse Linda
Author: Patti Stone
Publisher: Ace (#F-122)
Copyright: 1961
Illustrator: Robert Maguire

Illustration magazine, issue #3, page 42, lists Robert Maguire as the illustrator.

Cruise Nurse

Title: Cruise Nurse
Author: Joan Sargent
Publisher: Ace #F-101
Copyright: 1961
Illustrator: Robert Maguire

Illustrator magazine, issue #3, page 42, lists Robert Maguire as the illustrator for this cover.

Nurse Jean’s Strange Case

Title: Nurse Jean’s Strange Case
Author: Arlene Hale
Publisher: Ace
Copyright: 1970
Illustrator: Charles Gehm

His signature is in the shrubbery in the lower righthand corner.

Nurse Jean Reese took her new job at Webb House with some misgivings. The somber old mansion at Shadow Lake was a house of menace. Each of its occupants seemed to have a secret life—a private, closely hidden world not to be shared. In Jean’s life, too, there was a secret: a lost love which had left her sick at heart. For a time, things seemed as hopeless as they were frightening—until, one day, an exciting stranger appeared at Webb House. And Jean once again knew the brightness and warmth of love.

Nurse Marcie’s Island

Title: Nurse Marcie’s Island
Author: Arlene Hale
Publisher: Ace
Copyright: 1964
Illustrator: Bob Schinella
Review available


The signature on this cover (enlarged)






is similar to that of a known Bob Schinella work, the cover for A Nurse Called Hope (signature below).