Paperback 1164: Pocket Books 1083 (1st ptg, 1955)
Title: And Sometimes Death
Author: Jo Valentine
Cover artist: Tom Dunn
Condition: 8/10
Value: $10
- "A, E, I, O, U ..."
- What's the opposite of a peeping tom? Where you peep ... from inside the house ... at people who aren't hiding at all?
- "Hold me, Steve. My weird neighbor is freaking me out."
- LOL the original title makes it sound like a novel about the psychological problems of a misunderstood Norse god
- What is the ragged-edged frame supposed to evoke here? It's not torn paper, or an explosion. More like a stain. Or a country in the Balkans you forgot existed
Best things about this back cover:
- Like Proust's madeleine, only shamefuler
- So ... behind his hands ... is his heart? How did that happen? Henry Duncane, anatomical wonder!
- That last paragraph is weird. Is he hoping for a disaster? What disaster? Does he see the disaster in the night sky "beyond her?" Is it an asteroid? I hope it is an asteroid.
Page 123~
Nobody bathed in Thor Lake.
See, that should've been the title of the book.
~RP
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Number One on the list of Things That People Having an Extramarital Affair Don't Do: Passionately embrace in broad daylight (despite what the back cover says about "into the night", that's a blue sky on the front cover) in the yard of the house that the married party shares with his or her spouse.
ReplyDeleteSo is he really tall or is she really short. The way he's hunched over, he must be at least 8 inches taller. Also the way she's got her left arm around him looks really uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteSo, women at the window - is she seated, or is she 3 foot tall? Her husband appears to be 7 foot tall. Perhaps this is the issue causing friction in the marriage.
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