Title: The Black Curtain
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Cover artist: George Frederiksen
Yours for: $30
Best things about this cover:
- Me: "Why is the right side of the cover all blacked out? … oh, that's the black curtain. I see…"
- The Michelin Man stalks his next victim.
- The Michelin Man is ready for his midnight duel.
- The Michelin Man feels deep satisfaction at how thoroughly he has painted the town red.
Best things about this back cover:
- Mapback!
- 3=trees; 4=trees; 5=darker trees; 6=shrubs…
- Architectural blueprints!
- You have to go through the pantry to get from the kitchen to the dining room?
- "Don't go in that room." "Why, what's in there?" "Old man." "O dear god!"
Page 123~
"How is it that don't have the estate fenced in?" he asked. "Leave it open like this for anyone to trespass—"Pretty sure that first question is missing a word. Also pretty sure "We'll have to feel out way through the rough" (on the same page) contains a typo. So … no more blaming the internet for shitty editing.
~RP
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4 comments:
Pantry location makes sense if this is a butler's pantry, used for staging food for service.
Is the lack of pantry door also customary?
I do so love those Dell mapbacks.
You know, when I pick up a vintage pulp in a bookstore and there's a mapback, I have to resist the urge to scream MAAAAAPBAAAAAACK! Thanks to you.
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