Title: Fire, Burn
Author: John Dickson Carr
Cover artist: Uncredited
Yours for: $9
Best things about this cover:
- So, uh, title: are you giving instructions to the fire (which I doubt it needs), or … are you Frankenstein's monster remarking up on what fire does, or …?
- "Oh, hi there, I was just fixing my hair and … my boobs? … oh yes, there they are. Whoops, how careless of me."
- Giant pink bookmark.
- Cape/cane frame.
- God, 19th-century interior decorating was dreadful.
Best things about this back cover:
- Least flattering author pic of all time.
- Amateurish bats are oddly charming.
- I hope that Lady Flora is either a rapper or has a sister named Lady Fauna.
Page 123~
If anyone had seen the pistol fall from Flora's muff, or seen him hide it under the hollow-based lamp, they might both stand in the dock on a charge of murder.
~RP
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4 comments:
I suppose "Fire, Burn" is quoting Shakespeare, but it rather lacking out of context. Properly, the title should also have an exclamation point.
The painting just doesn't fit with a Carr novel. It looks like it's trying to imply the book is a lot racier than it almost certainly is.
Although, if you interpret "muff" as a euphemism in the 123 quote...
DemetriosX: what have you done? Now I'm imagining a gun falling out of a woman's... "muff"
It's been known to happen.
Sounds like the plot of the "Life on Mars".
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