Paperback 1163: Pyramid 134 (PBO, 1954)
Title: Savage Triangle
Author: Louis-Charles Royer (tr. Lawrence G. Blochman)
Cover artist: Uncredited
Condition: 7/10
Value: $10
- The long-awaited follow-up to Cruel Square and Feral Circle!
- Pretty sure I know who the "bad girl" is in this scenario? I'm betting on the bespangled, dark-haired drunk with the breadstick fingers.
- Love when they make paperback covers out of discarded aftershave ads.
- Dude is looking straight down her dress.
- Blonde: "Frank never stares down my dress like that!" [tears forearms savagely]
- [extreme B-52s voice] "Love Camp, / Baby, Love Camp!"
Best things about this back cover:
- Is this all she does? Stand around and watch her boyfriend make out with other ladies? She needs another hobby.
- Carmela! Stephan! ... Elsie!? Wow, you can really tell who the third wheel is here. Passion! Romance! ... Moooooo!
- I kinda like this little b&w watercolor sketch, actually. Better than just reproducing the cover art on the back.
- Ah yes, the passionate, dark Italian woman and the frigid, blonde virgin. "I fear womanhood, I desire womanhood, I'm a virgin who's going mad, what will they call me!?"
- "An act of murder brought them together." Classic meet-cute!
Page 123~
Neither woman dared question Kocheff, and he ate his soup in silence
Timeless story structure: Boy meets girl, boy meets other girl, boy eats soup.
~RP
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