Paperback 820: Strangers on a Train / Patricia Highsmith (Bantam 905)

Paperback 820: Bantam 905 (1st ptg, 1951)

Title: Strangers on a Train
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Cover artist: Stanley Zuckerberg

Yours for: $17


Best things about this cover:

• That dude wins Best Everything at the Paperback Cover Art Oscars. Best Eyes, Best Facial Expression, Boniest Hands, Best Gun-Caressing, Best Damned Trousers On The Planet, etc.
• What year is it? She looks she just walked out of a saloon circa 1889.
• This cover reminds me that I really need a flask. Bourbon is never close enough at hand.

Best things about this back cover:

• Even the handwriting is "tense and frightening."
• "Superbly Revolting" is my new go-to ambiguous pseudo-compliment.
• You can't really see what the original hardcover art was like, but I assure you, it's pretty bleeping ugly. And no Demented Trouser Guy, so … I'll stick with the cheap stuff, thanks.

Page 123~

He longed to merge his life with hers.

And the winner for Best Euphemism goes to …

~RP

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