Paperback 1000: Pocket Books 1063 (1st ptg, 1955)
Title:
The Case of the Musical Cow
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover artist: photo cover (Silver Studios)
Condition: 7/10
Estimated value: $12-15
Best things about this cover:
- After "All About Eve," Bette Davis's career took a weird turn there for a bit...
- Out with the old kind of mystery about DOPE and MURDER, in with the new kind of mystery about DOPE and MURDER. What's new, you ask? Well, musical cows, for one. Admit it, you did not see that coming.
- Is that an Eames chair? That's some pretty stylish bondage.
- There is a *lot* of rope in her lap, which the red-painted case title and the immersive mustard experience are probably supposed to distract you from.
Best things about this back cover:
- I love (like, Love) that the exciting red cursive intro text just says "Rob Trenton."
- I also love (like, Am In Awe Of) Erle Stanley Gardner's psychopathic signature.
- Ooh, Europe. How exoticish!
Page 123~
Rob Trenton, who had been listening incredulously, said, "That's a lie! That whole statement is false. This man is one of the . . . "
At this point, Rob Trenton was deemed both too implausible and too boring to continue as a functioning character in this story, and so he simply exploded, leaving the remaining characters staring (incredulously, of course) at an empty chair.
~RP
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