Title: The Scrambled Yeggs (GM 770, 2nd ptg, '59)
Author: Richard S. Prather
Cover artist: Barye Phillips, I think
Yours for: Not For Sale
There are two things and two things only to say about this cover:
- YEGGS!
- SPANKING!
- I'm with him 'til "plastic surgery," where the metaphor (simile, I guess) goes south for me. One of the things I like about vintage women (by which I mean the kinds of women that vintage paperbacks tend to showcase) is that they come from a time before plastic surgery started making (some) women look like scary clowns.
- "I'm broad-minded" = gold.
- Always good to close with a Whitesnake lyric
Page 123~
In the car, I put the gun on the seat to my right and pulled away from the curb. And I was hoping that the same guys who got Kelly would come after me. Those boys needed killing bad and right then I felt ready, willing and able — and maybe even a little eager.
Shell Scott, doing his best Mike Hammer impression (Scott is funnier and less frightening)
~RP
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7 comments:
So Shell is Santa Claus's younger, thinner, kinkier brother?
"Maybe I should have started with her face, but if I had, I'd have missed all the fun of getting to it" really is a fantastic line.
That one looks pretty good. One of my favorite Chandler lines: "From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away."
The eyebrows are making me cry.
"Private as a town hall clock". What is that supposed to mean? Aren't town hall clocks out there for everyone to see?
"A spanking, a spanking!"
I find it strange that the artist couldn't be bothered to color in Shell Scott's legs. They just seem to fade away into a mist while his upper half stays solid.
@L
Shell Scott's legs are pale because their circulation is cut off. That is one hefty baby he's spankin'!
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