Title: Death Is My Comrade
Author: Stephen Marlowe
Cover artist: Uncredited (Barye Phillips?)
Yours for: $10
Best things about this cover:
- "You must be this tall to ride this comrade."
- Mad Maxine in "Beyond Oniondome"!
- Not a fan of Gold Medal's late-50s/early-60s "Don't-Finish-The-Painiting" phase.
Best things about this back cover:
- Generic Detective Head Shot!
- "Tune in" — ha ha. It thinks it's TV.
- Hmmm, I'm no Chet Drum, but 'Rodzianko' and 'Rodin' sound awfully similar.
- Ooh, ripe *and* luscious *AND* underage! Just like Chet likes 'em.
Page 123~
Gone was the hail-fellow-well-met attitude, gone the booming voice. The big, shaggy man slouched slowly and wearily across the room. I gave him a cigarette. His big hand shook as he cupped the flame I offered. "For some of us dialectic reasoning makes the difference," he said.Silly commies, no longer hailing your well-met fellows. Chet Drum scoffs at you!
~RP
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4 comments:
"For some of us dialectic reasoning makes the difference," he said philosophically.
For some of us,dialectic reasoning is a waste of time. We just want beer and women.
Chet? I mean, come on. Chet?
Whenever I hear the name Chet, all I can think of is the Hardy Boys' somewhat overweight and dim sidekick.
I like my cheap detective novels with a shot of Hegel!
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