Yes, in case you were wondering, I do indeed take requests. This one’s from Michael Grost, whose website A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection is one you should visit and revisit often. I know I do.

   Said Mike, in a recent email:

   Steve, Victor Kalin did two different covers for Rinehart’s The Window at the White Cat. One is a sort of pun, in which a house also forms a cat face. The other shows a rainy building. Both are very good. His two covers for The Case of Jennie Brice are also atmospheric.    — Mike

   Victor Kalin is a favorite of mine also. He did ‘dark and gloomy’ very well, which meant he did a lot of covers for the gothics in the 1960s and early 1970s, but from the 1950s on, his work appeared on all kinds of mystery fiction, not to mention the occasional western or SF novel. I’ll set up a Cover Gallery for him in a day or so.

   To see what Mike means about the cover, you won’t if you’re sitting too close to the screen. You may have to move yourself backward, or refocus your eyes, to obtain the full effect. (Or vice versa, as the case may be.)

DELL D411. Paperback reprint: 1st printing, new Dell edition, March 1961. Previous Dell edition #506 [mapback], with many other later reprintings. Hardcover edition: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1910.

      From the back cover:

         Politics and Poker …

that was the occupation and the preoccupation of the members of the White Cat Club.

Once on the inside, a man’s business was his own and nobody gave a damn if he was the mayor of the town or the champion poolplayer of the first ward.

It was a noisy, crowded, masculine kind of retreat, which explained the sign that hung proudly over the door:

         “The White Cat Never Sleeps.”

But murder entered the wakeful chambers of the White Cat and its victims slept the deep, long sleep of the dead.