Title: Murder Without Tears
Author: Leonard Lupton
Cover artist: Roy Lance
"Games without frontiers ... murder without tears"Best things about this cover:
- "I'd love to stay with you longer in this rock quarry, but my ride's here now, so I better go..."
- Purple Sky, Tree of Death! (my suggested alternate title for this book)
- Hey lady, it's a gun, not a pet.
Best things about this back cover:
- Everything
- What the hell does "Need a Body Cry" mean?! I need a grammatical explanation
- "Need a body? Cry: 'Murder Without Tears'!" - does that make sense?
- This lady has forced me to create a new blog tag: "Bad Hair" (see also Paperback 43)
- I love the "Brady Bunch" feel of the back cover - it's like Bobby's trying to shoot Marcia
RP
5 comments:
"Need a body cry" appears to hail from a Robert Burns poem. I didn't check to see whether "Murder without tears!" is also poetic, but I'm thinking not.
Haiku:
Need a body cry?
A very Brady cover:
Murder without tears!
"His favorite corpse"?
Yeah, I know. Best not to think about it too much.
Is she a brunette (front) or blond (back)?
--Tony
No, "Need a body cry?" is the last line of the chorus in "Coming Through the Rye," an old Scots ballad. Lads and lassies...tears... surely it ties together somehow?
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