Title: The Boomerang Clue
Author: Agatha Christie
Cover artist: William Teason
Yours for: $10
Best things about this cover:
- Well, there's something you don't normally associate with Agatha Christie: BONDAGE.
- I love love love how her arms coupled with the back of the chair form a (very ironic) valentine! The red background only heightens the effect. Don't even get me started on how she kinda looks like a Catholic school girl who is at least mildly ashamed of the predicament she has gotten herself into... Or is that a look not of shame, or fear, but of coyness? Clearly, I have my own, private version of the story of how she came to be in that chair.
- Most of my Teason covers (lots of late 50s/60s Dells) don't have people on them. Clearly he should have done more people. The hands alone are gorgeous.
Best things about this cover:
- More broken windows!
- Random rope - did she escape!?
- I love how the copy on the back cover is typeset as if it were a poem
Page 123~
"To begin with," said Bobby, plunging [ed.: !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!], "I'm not really a chauffeur although I do work in a garage in London. And my name isn't Hawkins - it's Jones - Bobby Jones. I come from Marchbolt in Wales."
The story of a golfing legend gone deep, deep undercover.
~RP
3 comments:
Plunging? Is he unplugging a toilet perchance?
Cristiane
That cover is way too kinky.
And it seems there is no Marchbolt in Wales. That's the kind of thing I'm compulsively driven to check.
And she's a redhead. Let me tell you a thing or two about us redheads. We're kinky. We might get tied up by a random dude or two, and we might complain about it, but believe me you, our thighs are secretly tingly under our Maidenform Thigh Slimming Girdles.
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