Title: Kiss and Kill
Author: Ellery Queen
Cover artist: Robert McGinnis
YOURS FOR: SOLD! (mid-August, 2008)
Best things about this cover:
- "That's right, Skipper. You got me. I killed Mary Ann. I wanted all you luscious men for myself. Is that so wrong?"
- She has peach talons.
- McGinnis women are often quite sexy, but this one - yikes. Icy, bored, mannish, and clownishly bewigged.
- The saddest thing about this cover is that McGinnis's particular specialty was the, er, lower half of women; alas, that part remains hidden here behind some kind of bedsheet drapery.
Best things about this back cover:
- Ugh, same picture. Come on! Although here, she appears to be saying "... you talkin' to me?"
- "Barney Burgess" - that's up there in the "Hilarious Detective Names" pantheon.
RP
3 comments:
"His lovely wife was missing, and he wanted her back -- fast."
As opposed to those other husbands, who could wait til next Tuesday or so.
she has the world's longest index finger which bends in the world's most unnatural manner...
she's a keeper!
Aw, come on.... She's a redhead! With a gun! And death follows her everywhere she goes!
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