Title: Having Wonderful Crime
Author: Craig Rice
Cover artist: Uncredited
Yours for: $7
Best things about this cover:
- Bubbles! Wait, why are the martinis bubbling? Please don't say "that's champagne" because those are not champagne glasses.
- Also, stars! Because … because!
- I feel like Nick and Nora Charles are *just* out of frame.
Best things about this back cover:
- Wait, does that say "decapitated bride"? That's pretty gruesome for a 1940s crime comedy.
- Ha ha scare-quote *burn* on "free" verse.
- This book actually sounds kind of awesome.
Page 123~
"Yes, but the thing is," the medical examiner said again, "where is the other body, and where is the other head?"
My favorite part of that quotation is "again."
~RP
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4 comments:
Sorry to burst your bubble (so to speak) but those are indeed champagne glasses. They're called "coupes."
Is that a fancy word for "repurposed martini glass"?
As good as the flying martinis are without their attractive drinkers, that lettering is AWESOME.
If it's anything like her other books - screwball comedy and a heavy dose of alcoholism.
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