The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short, satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.
The paperback edition published by Dell Books in 1961 (LB146) comes with cover art by Sheilah Beckett (1913–2013), “the first female artist hired to work at New York’s Charles E. Cooper Studio.” [illustrationhistory.org]