A Bullet for My Love, by Octavus Roy Cohen (Popular Library, 1952). Illustration by James Meese.
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Desperate Much?
If this crime novel from the late 1940s offers one of the cleverest titles, then the book below certainly carries one of the worst.
Seduce Me … Anybody! (Bee-Line, 1967) is credited to “Cynthia Mann.” However, the fictionist behind that pseudonym was Leonard Liebman (1909-1991), who for a quarter-century was married to Emmy Award-winning actress and author Ann Loring (1914-2005), a longtime star of the CBS-TV soap opera Love of Life.
Seduce Me … Anybody! (Bee-Line, 1967) is credited to “Cynthia Mann.” However, the fictionist behind that pseudonym was Leonard Liebman (1909-1991), who for a quarter-century was married to Emmy Award-winning actress and author Ann Loring (1914-2005), a longtime star of the CBS-TV soap opera Love of Life.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Patting Himself on the Back
Following on my post last week about Strangers When We Meet, a 1958 novel by Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain), I want to draw attention to the cover below, from 1955’s Murder in the Navy.
The author credited with concocting this particular thriller is Richard Marsten, and the promotional blurb highlighted in yellow on its cover (“Superb suspense!”) comes from Hunter. What publisher Gold Medal failed to disclose, and most readers probably wouldn’t have known in the mid-’50s, was that Marsten--like McBain--was one of the several pseudonyms Hunter employed during his writing career. In other words, Hunter was giving a solid thumbs-up to his own book! A “cheeky” development, as the Seattle Mystery Bookshop Hardboiled blog remarked when it posted this same cover last month.
Incidentally, the illustration on this edition of Murder in the Navy was executed by Clark Hulings. Murder in the Navy was subsequently republished as Death of a Nurse, by Ed McBain.
The author credited with concocting this particular thriller is Richard Marsten, and the promotional blurb highlighted in yellow on its cover (“Superb suspense!”) comes from Hunter. What publisher Gold Medal failed to disclose, and most readers probably wouldn’t have known in the mid-’50s, was that Marsten--like McBain--was one of the several pseudonyms Hunter employed during his writing career. In other words, Hunter was giving a solid thumbs-up to his own book! A “cheeky” development, as the Seattle Mystery Bookshop Hardboiled blog remarked when it posted this same cover last month.
Incidentally, the illustration on this edition of Murder in the Navy was executed by Clark Hulings. Murder in the Navy was subsequently republished as Death of a Nurse, by Ed McBain.
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Is This the Greatest Teaser Line Ever?
“There Was Invitation in Every Lovely Curve of Her Body—
An Invitation Right to the Morgue.”
An Invitation Right to the Morgue.”
Satan’s Widow, by Harry Whittington (Phantom, 1951).
Hat tip to Bill Crider.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Not Exactly a Ringing Endorsement
Generally speaking, when a publisher goes hunting for recommendations to highlight on its book jackets, the quotes sought are at least somewhat more enthusiastic than this one that appeared on the 1959 Ace Double mystery paperback edition of Harry Whittington’s Play for Keeps (the full hardcover edition of which was released by Abelard Schuman two years before).
By the way, the novel on the flip side of Ace’s Play for Keeps was The Corpse Without a Country, by Louis Trimble (1917-1988).
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