Harry Bennett

Title: Starring Suzanne Carteret, R.N.
Author: Diane Frazer (pseud. Dorothy Fletcher)
Published: Nov 1966, ©1966
Publisher: Pocket Books
Illustrator: Harry Bennett

His name is on the bottom of the illustration.

When, almost by chance, Suzanne Carteret was summoned as consultant on a television series devoted to nursing, it seemed to her a wildly exciting prospect. The entertainment world was a madly glamorous one and she was eager to penetrate it. But it proved far different from what she had imagined. Soon she found herself sucked into a vortex that threatened to carry her far over her head. Things began happening more quickly than she had ever imagined possible, and for a moment it even began to look as if she might be swept into a whole new career. Would it turn her head? Could she abandon nursing, for which she felt such a genuine vocation? And what about young Doctor Clive, with whom she had thought herself in love? The decision was hers. Or was it? Everything moved with a rapidity that made her feel sometimes that she no longer had any control over her life!

Harry Bennett

Title: The Dilemma of Geraldine Addams
Author: Diane Frazer (pseud. Dorothy Fletcher)
Published: March 1965, ©1965
Publisher: Pocket Books
Illustrator: Harry Bennett

His signature runs along the bottom of the Nurse’s dress.

“Let’s have it,” Dr. Brownlee said to Henry Franklin, a very influential member of the Board of Trustees of Cranston Hill Hospital, with a wife who was an important member of the Women’s Auxiliary.
“Well, this newspaper fellow came to see Clara, and it seems you have someone on your staff here who shouldn’t be on the staff of any self-respecting hospital.”
“You mean one of our doctors?” Brownlee asked, suddenly alert.
“Not a doctor. A nurse. Geraldine Addams.”
Dr. Brownlee sat up straight. “Geraldine Addams? What about her?”
“I gather that she was a pretty notorious playgirl, that she posed for some rather startling photographs, that she was even involved in a hit-and-run accident. You wouldn’t want to retain someone like that on your nursing staff I’m sure, Lyman. Seems she’s in the children’s ward. It’s not the best of situations, is it?”

First Year Nurse

Title: First Year Nurse
Author: Diane Frazer
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: November 1964, ©1964
Illustrator: Harry Bennett

His signature is on the right-hand side of the page.

“You’re leaving us, Dr. Troy?” Taffy closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “You let me know if there’s an opening in your hospital, Doctor.”
Dr. Troy stared at her. It was the stare of a boy seeing all the toys he had wanted under the Christmas tree. There was a silence that seemed to last forever. “No need to check,” he said hoarsely. “I know there’s an opening.”
“Is there?” she said, and looked directly into his brown eyes.
What happened next was completely her doing. It wasn’t possible that she had put her arms up to his shoulders and put her mouth on his. It wasn’t possible. But there she was in his arms, which had promptly wrapped themselves around her, as if he’d been waiting for her to do exactly that. And maybe had had been waiting, waiting a long time.

Barye Phillips

Title: Combat Nurse
Author: Frieda K. Franklin
Publisher: Pocket Books (#1147)
Published: February 1957, ©1955
Illustrator: Barye Phillips

His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.

“Here is a different war novel. It is told from the viewpoint of Lee Caine, a nurse working with the advance platoon of a field hospital, the farthest forward unit of its type. This isn’t a pretty story, but it is a gripping one—a novel that strips off the so-called glamour of war and leaves the stink, the mud, the slime, and the blood and death that are its very essence. Mistakes are here as well as victories—planes that bomb their own men, cowards who turn tail and run, a surgeon who cracks up in the middle of an operation. Here is a side of war seldom portrayed—and seldom so vividly. Even the armchair adventurer will feel that he has lived in the very vortex of a bloody conflict.” —The New York Times Book Review

Barye Phillips

Title: Dr. Whitney’s Secretary
Author: Dorothy P. Walker
Publisher: Pocket Books, #583
Published: Feb. 1949, ©1944
Illustrator: Barye Phillips


He is credited on the back cover.

Joy Marlowe was engaged to Vic Harding. Now she was betrayed, and by her own sister! Her pride was hurt but to her surprise she found her heart immune. Could it be that her loyal attachment to handsome Dr. Whitney was a mask for some deeper emotion? She had to find the answer. The future happiness of four people was involved. Would her final decision be the right one?



George Porter

Title: Five O'Clock Surgeon
Author: Dorothy Pierce Walker
Publisher: Pocketbook #686
Published: February 1950, ©1948
Illustrator: George Porter
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

Dr. Stephen Lovett glanced up from the patient on the operating table. “Take a message,” he said, turning to the medical student at his side. Presently the boy reappeared, grinning. “Miss Townsend wants to remind you that the cocktail party starts at five-thirty.” Young Doctor Stephen Lovett’s doctoring hours were from 9 to 5 … no more! His fiancée, Leslie Townsend, saw to that. But then Steve met the lovely nurse, Julie Greenwood. “A doctor’s first duty is to his patients,” she said. Steve had to make a choice. Was he going to be a doctor or a playboy?

Robert Abbett

Title: Surgical Nurse
Author: Rosie M. Banks (pseud. Alan Jackson)
Publisher: Pocket Books
Copyright: 1959
Published: Third edition (#6057), 1960
Illustrator: Robert Abbett

Review available.

His signature is at the bottom of the cover.

Nurse Althea Jones, young and lovely, worshiped her boss, Dr. Mike. He was a brilliant surgeon. Handsome—and married. So Althea did not admit—even to herself—that she loved him. But the day came that shattered her life. Dr. Mike leaned down and kissed his pretty nurse. Not a friendly kiss but one filled with unleashed passion. Then he recovered his control and the moment was over—for him. But for her, that was a moment of beginning. How could she forget, ever, the pressure of his lips on hers? How could she ever marry anyone else, knowing that her heart belonged to him? She knew it was hopeless. But there had to be a way, somehow, somewhere, someday!

Mark Dawson

Title: Special Nurse
Author: Lucy Agnes Hancock
Publisher: Pocket Books (#6054)
Copyright: 1948
Published: 1960, fifth printing
Illustrator: Mark Dawson

Review available

He is credited on the back cover. Another cover for this same book can be found here.

“It’s all over, my darling.” Gently, Pete’s hand brushed her cheek. Pam was only partially conscious, but she felt that the comforting voice belonged to someone she knew and loved. When Pam awoke in the hospital, Pete was gone. But the nurse told her what had happened to him. “That young man was eloping when his car hit yours. The accident upset his plans, but it’s all right. He’s married now!” Pam couldn’t choke back her tears. She had lost him. But why had he called her “my darling”? Why had he pretended to be in love with her when he had a fiancee all the time? Pam hoped she had seen the last of the flirtatious Dr. Peter Allen. But she hadn’t—not by any means!

Barye Phillips

Title: Special Nurse
Author: Lucy Agnes Hancock
Publisher: Pocket Books (#692)
Published: 1950 (Pocket Books first edition)
Illustrator: Barye Phillips
Review available

He is credited on the back cover. Another cover of this same book can be found here.

"Darling!" A voice from the past greeted her. Pamela Ware spun around, her heart in her throat.
"You! Doctor Allen!" she whispered.
"Pete, to you, Pam. Just Pete."
"But what are you doing here?" she asked.
"Visiting," he smiled. "A guest like you."
"Oh!" was all Pam could say. Why had he come? She was trembling--her heart throbbed with a dull ache. Pamela Ware said she would never marry a doctor. But that was before she went on vacation; before the accident that gave her life into the hands of an unknown doctor. Afterward, nothing was quite the same. Her head still said "no" but her heart would not listen.

Harry Bennett

Title: I, Theresa, Registered Nurse
Author: Diane Frazer
Publisher: Pocket Books (#45021)
Published: June 1965
Illustrator: Harry Bennett
Review available

His signature is in the upper right-hand corner.

“You see, Greg,” she said soberly, “nobody really knows when my birthday is.” He turned around and looked into her face. “What is this, a gag? Surely your mother knows. She was there after all.” She sat up straight. “Nobody knows when I was born. I’m not really the daughter of Stewart and Alicia Winslow; they adopted me when I was a little girl. It’s rather like a Victorian novel. But it’s fact, no fiction.” “But who … but they must know who …” “No, I was found, it seems, asleep and almost frozen to death in some woods in France, near the Swiss border. The Winslows took me from a home for such war orphans in France. All they know is that I was about four when I came up to the French peasants who discovered me and said, Je suis Thérèse …”

Harry Bennett

Title: Date with Danger
Author: Diane Frazer
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: April 1966
Illustrator: Harry Bennett
Review available

His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.

Nurse Barbara Bradley was returning from a holiday in Spain, but just before the plane landed a woman passenger was taken sick and Barbara was pressed into service by the airline stewardess. She cared for the woman as best she could, and helped her off the plane into the wheel chair that would transport her to the ambulance. Barbara herself had assured the stewardess it would be a wise precaution to radio ahead for it. But just as the ambulance pulled away Barbara realized she was still holding the woman’s bulky handbag. She called after the ambulance, then broke into a run. But Barbara never reached the ambulance. Suddenly the bag was wrenched from her hand, and the next thing she knew she was in the office of Lieutenant McIver of the New York police force. The carryall, it seemed, contained narcotics. Whatever had Barbara gotten herself into: And how was she ever going to get out of it?

Harry Bennett

Title: An American Nurse in Vienna
Author: Diane Frazer
Publisher: Pocket Books (#50208)
Published: January 1966
Illustrator: Harry Bennett
Review available

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

When nurse Mary Tyler learned that she was being sent to Vienna, she was overjoyed. Cannister Memorial in New York had always seemed to her an exciting place. But all her life she had longed to see Europe. Besides, Franz Schneider, who also worked at Cannister Memorial, was to be one of the two doctors on the team. And Mary was secretly in love with him. Then in Vienna she met a young Hungarian baron who swept her off her feet. She had intended only to make Franz jealous. But soon she found that she was playing with fire.

Isabel Dawson

Title: Wilderness Nurse
Author: Marguerite Mooers Marshall
Copyright: 1950
Publisher: Pocket Books
Illustrator: Isabel Dawson
Review available.

She is credited on the back cover (though her first name is spelled Isabelle).

Denise Burke was gay and youthful and a very good nurse in a big city hospital. She loved her career, and she loved Larry Randall, who wanted to marry her and have her give up that career to be his wife. Troubled and uncertain, Denise went north for a vacation and a chance to make her decision away from the pressures of either work or love. Then … she had a serious accident and it took the skill of a master surgeon to heal both her body and her heart.

Roswell Keller

Title: Student Nurse
Author: Lucy Agnes Hancock
Publisher: Pocket Books
Copyright: 1948
Illustrator: Roswell Keller
Review available here.

He is credited on the back cover.

“You dear stubborn girl” That’s what Dr. Alec Macauley thought of his beautiful young nurse, Gail Weston. Pleading his case with her aunt, he said: “I love Gail. I want her to marry me, but—” “I’m sorry, Doctor,” the old lady murmured. “I have been wondering if there is someone else. If there is—well, I suppose I shall still hope.” There is someone else in Gail Weston’s heart: Peter Rand. Lighthearted, gay, apparently irresponsible, Peter seems almost callow alongside Dr. Macauley. But Gail is drawn to Peter in spite of herself. Though she feels she should respond more to Alec Macauley, she finds herself unstirred. Then crisis strikes. Both men are at hand. Gail learns their true worth and makes her choice in this fine, sensitive tale of the hardest decision a woman has to make.

Darrell Greene

Title: Visiting Nurse
Author: Margaret Howe
Publisher: Pocket Books
Copyright: 1959
Illustrator: Darrell Greene
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

Alice Gregory had wanted to be a nurse from the time she had been a child. Now her dream had come true in a very special way—she was a visiting nurse to the blind. Each day Alice learned a new lesson in courage from her patients. Only one, Leila Haley, seemed at the brink of despair. The girl had beauty and a magnetic attraction for me. But the loss of her sight had made her sullen and resentful. It was Alice Gregory’s task to restore Leila’s desire for life. Then the terrible moment came when Alice discovered the truth. She and Leila were not only nurse and patient—they were two girls who desperately loved the same man. Could Alice Gregory remain true to her sworn oath to help her patients in every way? Or should she fight for her own chance for happiness?

Harry Bennett

Title: Headline Nurse
Author: Phyllis Ross
Publisher: Pocket Books
Copyright: 1965
Illustrator: Harry Bennett
Review available

His signature runs down her left sleeve.

“I’m a nurse! Not a woman!” She kept repeating the words to herself as she looked down at Pete’s broken body. His shirt was in rags, one trouser was ripped from ankle to knee, and there was a terrible gash on his forehead. She took out bandages and antiseptic and began to dress the wounds—all the time trying to forget that the battered man was the one she loved. The others in the clinic had turned their backs for a moment. She leaned down quickly and brushed her lips against his bruised cheek. “Oh, my darling,” she cried softly, “My poor darling.”