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Paperback 144: Ace Double F-111 (PBO / 1st ptg, 1961)
Title: The Girl from Las Vegas / To Have and To Kill
Author: J.M. Flynn / Robert Martin
Cover artist: uncredited / uncredited
Best things about this cover:
- Q: What's the one thing that could upstage a half-naked, armed redhead reclining on your hotel room bed?
- A: Those pants
- This cover makes me feel funny ... I like that she's, uh, packing heat, but does she have to hold it like that. It's making me worried/confused. I think she's ordering me to kneel, but ... I'm scared to ask why.
- It's like Ann-Margaret killed "I Dream of Jeannie," stole her hair, and then ran off to Las Vegas to, I don't know ... let's say, join Clown College.
Best things about this cover:
- "Aaargh, Krull angry. Who paint words on Krull's back? Krull make someone pay for cleaning bill..."
- "Abridged" - HA ha. "Long story short, he married her, killed her, and then carried her half-shod corpse over the threshold. Cue the music, fade to black, roll credits."
- I should be keeping track of all the low-rent outfits that provide blurbs for my books. The Charleston News & Courier!? When did anyone ever take reading advice from South Carolina? (No offense, guys ... Go Gamecocks!)
He had shaved and changed into a light blue short-sleeved shirt and gray cord slacks. His attire surprised me a little, perhaps because I had subconsciously expected him to wear a dark mourning suit and somber tie. He still looked tired; eyes sunken, dark half moons beneath them. I leaned back in the chair and said, "Hi."
-from To Have and To Kill
~RP
6 comments:
I am so confused by the Girl From Vegas's torso. It just doesn't make any sense, visually or anatomically. And those pants... oh wow.
Um, I don't think she's going to shoot you with the gun. She has other plans for it. It's a Sultry Sunday/Phallic Phriday crossover!
The girl from Vegas looks like she has scoliosis.
It's nice to know I'm not the only person in the world who feels it necessary to judge a book by its cover!
Hey, I used to OWN those pants that the Vegas Girl is wearing. They were vintage Levis (or maybe Wranglers) - I have a pic to prove it!
Eeeep! A review by the News & Courier?! You do know that we Charlestonians call it the Newsless Courier because, well, as you can see, it is.
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