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The hero of this book (29 cents at Thriftko) is John Gregory, a brilliant lawyer haunted by a brutal murder. A man a lot like me, in other words, which is why I think I need a secretary like he has:
Until lately, she had felt she had grown to known this man as well as a devoted secretary should. She knew the size of his clothing from socks to collar, how much of everything to order when he had guests coming for another one of his barbecue suppers, his brother's birthday and his sister-in-law's, the traveling accommodations he preferred, his favorite cocktail lounges in and out of town...But now there was part of him that had become strangely clouded over.
I too am a brooding, virile man of action in need of cocktail lounge reservations and the occasional blowjob under the desk. Right?
The back of the book sports the logo of the Doubleday Crime Club. It's a great graphic, but I have a little trouble understanding what's going on, exactly. Is the figure composed of letters that spell "DD Crime"? It almost looks like it, but I get lost after the I. Also, why are his legs shapes like the bottom section of a rocket? And what's with the bullets going off in four different directions? I can't help thinking about this kind of stuff. It's the curse of profundity.
PREVIOUS FABULOUS COVERS OF THE WEEK:
The Face of the Ancient Orient
What comes in a box?
The Age of Reason
The Coming of the French Revolution
Andre the Courier
Hide-Out
Brideshead Revisited
The Golden Book Sherlock Holmes
Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, vol. 5
God's Smuggler
Mixology
The Score
The Frazer Acquittal
Wife or Death
Wild Game Cookbook
Crime Patrol No.9
Boy's Choice
The Value of Fairness
Cancelled Japanese Stamps
The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues
Scoop
Barchester Towers
Fathers and Sons
Evil Genius
Early Man in the New World
Camp Craft
The Man in the Net
7 Types of Ambiguity
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
The Idea, a novel told in woodcuts
The Simple Art of Murder
History Begins at Sumer, featuring the typography of Edward Gorey
Marvel Spectacular featuring the art of Jack Kirby
The Age of Analysis
Metropolis: An American City in Photographs
Engineering is Like This
The Ponder Heart
Don Martin Digs Deeper
The Golden Book Encyclopedia of Natural Science (Volume 9, Kinglets to Meteor)
The Mountlake Terrace High School 1964 yearbook
Take a Letter: A Cyclopedia of Business & Social Correspondence
The Vice Lords: Warriors of the Street
Islam and The Golden Home and High School Encyclopedia
Munakata
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