Paperback ___: Publisher number (PBO, 1974)
Title: The Baroness #4: Hard-core Murder
Author: Paul Kenyon
Cover artist: Uncredited [Hector Garrido]
Condition: 8/10
Value: $25
[from Stomping Grounds bookstore, Geneva, NY (6/24/25)]
- The kind of book where I take one look at it and I'm like "yup!" No hesitation. Redhead in a bodysuit karates ancient Romans and their tigers? I'm in. Even when I (eventually) noticed that the action seems to be taking place on a movie set—still in.
- Pink. This book is very pink. I mean, Pink.
- I cannot tell you how badly I need Baronesses numbers 1 through 3.
- The Sexy Superspy who entertained the crew by making shadow puppets with her giant spatula hands!
Best things about this back cover:
- "Makes the scene!" Nobody "makes the scene" anymore. Real loss to the culture, imho. I mean, I get that it's a movie pun, but still ... people used to "make the scene" and now they don't and we are all the poorer for it.
- Yes, I paid $7.50 for this. As you can see, it's "worth" a bit more (based on prices at abebooks). Not that I really care that much.
- Baroness Penelope St. John-Orsini! That's ... quite a name. My wife is named "Penelope." I don't think I could get her to wear that outfit, but I'm gonna start calling her "Baroness" and see what happens.
- A porn film that will bring down the American government, eh? I don't think anyone's tried that one yet. Whatever it takes!
- "Sully Flick" was born Sensual Motion Picture IV but thought it sounded too aristocratic for the movie biz so here we are.
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Frankie found his favorite place, the table near the display of leather-and-chain books, that had all the real hot stuff on it. It was very educational.
~RP
3 comments:
I absolutely get the appeal of this cover, but I think I'd like it better if the gladiator weren't just pasted in behind her.
There's a Wikipedia article on this series with lots of info:
1. Paul Kenyon was a house pseudonym, but they were all written by Donald Moffitt, who wrote SF under his real name.
2. There are EIGHT of these, plus three unpublished books. Two by Moffitt and one by somebody else.
3. According to Wiki, all the covers were done by Hector Garrido. No reference on that, so take it with a grain of salt.
Cool, thanks, I’ll add the attribution and note the lack of source
The Baroness covers definitely look like Garrido’s work to me. The style is very similar to the multitude of covers he painted for The Destroyer series published by Pinnacle. The Baroness books themselves are fun in a very 70s Supertrash kind of way.
b.t.
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