Of the following five covers — all scanned from the dusty, diverse paperback collection of yours truly — only one, A House Divided from Pocket Books, includes a formal illustrator credit, and the lucky artist is/was… wait for it… Jim Avati!

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The best of the bunch: A House Divided and The Farmers Hotel. IMHO, of course!

Keywords: Smouldering Fires by Anya Seton, Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes, The Finding of Jasper Holt by Grace Livingston Hill, The Farmers Hotel by John O’Hara, A House Divided by Pearl S. Buck.