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Paperback 186: Gold Medal 947 (PBO, 1960)
Title: Danger Is My Line
Author: Stephen Marlowe
Cover artist: Uncredited (looks like Barye Phillips a little)
Best things about this cover:
- "Oh, don't mind me, I'm just..."
- "tying my ... pump"
- "doing some very advanced step aerobics"
- "trying to figure out the most auspicious way to present my magnificent rear end to the world"
- Chester Drum looks like he's prepping to give someone a very unpleasant exam
- "Danger Is My Line" is a beyond-lame title - along with the author's last name (Marlowe), it furthers the impression that the book will be a horrid rip-off of Chandler (who wrote "Trouble Is My Business")
Best things about this back cover:
- So Chester Drum is ... a lamb. Either that, or one of Mary's lambs wants to screw her.
Page 123~
Maybe he got the belly from drinking too much beer or maybe he got it from eating criminals alive - but the overall impression he gave, penguin-body, rimless hexagonal glasses, merry twinkling eyes, was about as deadly as a house-cat's. Still, I told myself, these things are relative - house-cats are pretty deadly: to rats.
"Deep Thoughts," by Chester Drum
~RP
7 comments:
Could describe Santa Claus
Baby. Got. Back. Rrrrowwwwwlll!
Are you kidding me? House cats are evil sadistic little bastards. (The one purring in my lap managed to flay a couple of baby rabbits alive because they were too big for her to kill outright. She's indoors-only now.)
clearly she got a ladder in her stockings and was just dabbing some nail polish on it ...
And if she wasn't doing that, then I don't know WHAT she's supposed to be doing...
Maybe she's supposed to be climbing on the chair to escape through a window?
... if there were a window.
Looks more like a cross dresser to me. Check out the eyebrow! Just the wrong angle to see the adam's apple...
-- Feral Boy
Huh. I thought the most interesting point of the cover was the Mickey Mouse-like glove he's got there.
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