Paperback 1153: Pocket Books 820 (1st ptg, 1951)
Title: A Murder Is Announced
Author: Agatha Christie
Cover artist: Frank McCarthy
Condition: 8/10
Value: $10
- When your CPR compressions are *way* too hard...
- Lady looks like she's competing in some kind of haunted house biathlon, and losing
- Dead guy's right hand is gonna haunt my dreams for days. I count five fingers, but somehow it looks like seven
Best things about this back cover:
- Ah, the classified ads. I miss those. People advertising help wanted, selling furniture, announcing murders. The good old days.
- Pretty close to Halloween to being going to strange women's houses. Particularly strange women named Letitia Blacklock. Oh, did the lights go out? Were you "locked" in "blackness"? What did you expect to happen!?
- God bless Pocket Books for the artist credit. Love an artist credit. Hate having to track artists down (or, worse, and more common, not being able to find out who did the art at all)
Page 123~
"If you'd been up against, and then, rather like a shivering stray cat, you'd found a home and cream and a warm stroking hand and you were called Pretty Pussy and somebody thought the world of you ... You'd do a lot to keep that ..."
Boy, would I. You got that right.
~RP
P.S. My long winter hiatus is over. Gonna try to stick to a regular T/Th publishing sched. for the foreseeable future, with possible weekend posts if I have the time. Thank you to loyal readers. Tell a friend! xo
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