Title: Case of the Petticoat Murder
Author: Jonathan Craig
Cover artist: Uncredited
Estimated value: $20
Best things about this cover:
- The second movement of "Eroica" *is* pretty groovy…
- That hand is halfway between Fear Hand and "You Want Some of This?" Hand.
- I really, really like that bare suggestion of a bed frame. It's a pair of lips! It's a gun sight! The whole spirit of Sexy/Danger conveyed in a few graceful black arcs.
Best things about this back cover:
- Mustard. I think that's what I'm looking at.
- I wish all the non-green words would just drop away. Now that's what I call "poetry."
- You rarely see detectives so proud of their necrophilic tendencies.
Page 123~
"Because, for one thing, I don't care for alligator."
~RP
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2 comments:
This is definitely one of the hottest covers you've posted in a while. The tag line, alas, doesn't work with it at all. How are her hips swaying in that position? (Although, if they are, hello nurse!)
I think this has come up before, but I just can't read these series announcements that say "Another XYZ book" without hearing them in a totally exasperated voice. "Oh, geeze, not again!"
Her hips may not be swaying but you can tell from this angle that baby's got back.
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