Title: A Taste for Cognac
Author: Brett Halliday
Cover artist: Bob Stanley
Yours for: $15
Best things about this cover:
- Red hair. Bow tie. Side glance.
- That ugly booth bench puts her in a rather weird, hunchy, decidedly unsexy position.
- His hand is almost too expertly rendered. Seems like a living thing, operating wholly independently from Cap'n Bow Tie.
Best things about this back cover:
- Psst, Blackie. He's gonna need his face for, you know, talking.
- Love trigger-happy gunmen. So much cooler than gun-happy triggermen. Or gun-shy gunmen—those guys are the worst.
- I am intrigued by the concept of "Night Bus."
Page 23~
"So you think I did it?" Shayne fumed.
~RP
[Follow Rex Parker on Twitter and Tumblr]
4 comments:
Isn't a night bus a pretty straightforward concept? In London, and presumably elsewhere, it means a bus that runs after the normal daytime bus schedules have finished. Taking the night bus back from a a party or a club is part of every Londoner's education.
Perhaps the "dame" on the oddly shaped bench is actually perched on Capt. Bowtie's shoulder?
Also love the list of other books in the 10-cent series. Some are classics, some disappeared unlamented. You can just never tell, can you?
I gotta read this book!
"Night Bus" is the basis for "It Happened One Night."
Post a Comment