Harry Kane's Other Illustrations

Based on the research I have conducted, it now appears that Kane's major illustrating duties in the way of books was for the Three Investigators series. However, there are other books available through the internet and in used bookstores that have either the cover or internal illustrations drawn by Harry Kane, most of which were published by Random House.

A few months ago, I acquired one such book, and I have pasted some of the illustrations from it below. It's easy to see Harry Kane's style in several of the drawings and the similarities in facial features to some of the characters that he drew for the Three Investigators books.

If you would like to see all the illustrations that Harry Kane drew for the Three Investigators series, just click on the Stories section of this website and pick one of the first 16 stories in the series. That will lead you to a page that shows the cover and the internal illustrations.

	Interesting cover for this book. Unfortunately, if I didn't know that it was by Harry Kane, I probably would not have recognized it as being his work because I am so used to his drawing for the Three Investigators series that I wouldn't have considered that he could draw for a different area such as science fiction.
	This picture is easy to recognize as being Harry Kane's work, primarily because of the posture and facial features of the man in the illustration. Compare the angle of the face to some of Kane's illustrations, such as in The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot (look at Jupe in the cemetery).
	Could that be Pete Crenshaw wearing a space helmet? Compare the similiarities between this pilot and Pete as drawn in The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure or see how Pete was drawn in one of the illustrations in The Secret of the Crooked Cat.
	This drawing has many of the elements that we associate with Harry Kane. First, he is able to draw animals in such natural poses (look at how he does it in The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon). Second, the facial features of the two gentlemen are similar to that used in The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy (look at the gardener's face) and The Secret of Skeleton Island (look at the face of Ballinger).

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