Title: The Case of the Smoking Chimney
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover artist: [Charles Binger]
Estimated value: $8-10
Condition: 9/10
- She's got something of the saloon about her.
- Those gloves are off-the-chart hot.
- So weird how they've given the curtains that hourglass shape. Actually, the longer I stare at the whole curtain scenario, the more it starts looking like ... something else entirely.
- Text is as if written on surface of invisible floating sphere. Strange.
- Most gigantic artist signature in cover art history and Of Course it gets cut off.
- Ooh, I like this. It's a great, simple, quick way of visually representing the Big Red Text.
- Sideeye!
- "The story they told was clear and obvious." No need to give you details. Your brain is doing fine providing those on its own.
Page 123~
"Well, you see it's this way," Gramps explained. "I've always been interested in crime stuff."
I feel you, Gramps.
~RP
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2 comments:
An infrared flash bulb??
The "Charles" sig stands for Charles Binger (at least I'm pretty sure it does). Googling his name pulls up a ton of his covers, all done in a similar gouache style, somewhat in the same vein as Ernest "Darcy" Chiriaka and Barye Phillips.
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