
The Key, by “Patricia Wentworth,” aka Dora Amy Elles (Popular Library, 1950), the eighth novel to star schoolteacher-turned-sleuth Miss Maud Silver. Cover illustration by Rudolph Belarski.

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2 comments:
Is the "flare" in the mirror from a flashlight the man is holding, a muzzle flash from a second pistol, or starring from a just-fired bullet?"
Great cover art by Belarski!
My guess would be that it comes from a flashlight the gunman is holding--the same flashlight that's caught the woman in its beam.
Cheers,
Jeff
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