Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cover artist: "Cover design by Push-Pin Studios"
Yours for: $6
- Who runs like that? She looks like she is either shouting "O lawdy lawdy" or preparing to throw a boomerang
- The world's only nonuplets furiously clean the walls of the "Hollywood Squares" set
- This book should have been called "Nine Yellow Rooms Which Are Actually Mostly Orange"
- I haven't laughed this hard at the tag line on a book's back cover in some time.
- After reading this back cover, it appears the tag line *should* have read "A Smell of Rancid Flesh"
- OK, at "... and something else," we know it's a dead body. I was holding out hope that the last word on the cover would be something like "squirrel," "gnome," or "Smurf," but no...
Page 123~
She protested almost wildly, but he did not listen.
What the hell does "almost wildly" look like? What am I supposed to be picturing, Mary? Ugh. Thank god there's just one more MRR book to go. Her writing is unbearable, even in tiny pieces.
~RP
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