Title: Morocco Jones in The Case of the Golden Angel
Author: Jack Baynes
Cover artist: Barye Phillips
Yours for: $11
Best things about this cover:
- Hey look, it's Robert Mitchum's slow, pin-headed cousin ... Morocco.
- What are you, a pirate? Button your blouse, Morocco.
- LOVE her pose / expression. It's like she's upset that no one's paying attention to her: "Oh, my, there's a rip in the back of my dress, boys. Look. Boys? Boys!!!"
- The boys are developing their patented angry secret handshake.
- And Morocco floated like a besotted wine-colored god in the heavens ...
Best things about this back cover:
- This back cover was made with some early, horrid version of Photoshop. "Crop! Ok, now ... blue-ify!"
- Oh, *that* Kansas City.
- Of course nobody told Morocco that the "S.O.S." stood for "Sad Old Spy." It would've hurt his feelings.
Page 123~
Dave tossed Morocco a taut grin. "What honest labor union leader could afford a perch like this one?"You have to make your grin taut before you toss it, otherwise it just sort of dies in mid-air.
~RP
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4 comments:
Budapest... Bangkok... Copenhagen... Cairo... [tires screeching to a halt] Kansas City?!?
Looks more like Kirk Douglas' kid brother than Robert Mitchum's. I love it when the artist clearly bases a cover on some actor. I have one around somewhere with a dead ringer for Patrick McGoohan.
I'm surprised that this book even has a page 123. I don't know how the author summoned enough energy to write that much, after having expended what had to have been a Herculean effort in coming up with town names such as "Border City" and "Pacific Port".
Talk about dedication to your Art!
What? No Centerville or Anytown? In my books I almost always use real locations ... unless the story dictates otherwise, of course.
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