Sunday, April 19, 2015

Paperback 871: Dictators Die Hard / Robert A. Levey // Evil is the Night / John Creighton (Ace D-393)

Paperback 871: Ace Double D-393 (1st ptg / PBO)

Titles: Dictators Die Hard / Evil is the Night
Authors: Robert A. Levey / John Creighton
Cover artists: Uncredited / Uncredited

Estimated value: $25-30

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Best things about this cover:

  • Dictators Die Hard—Stenographers Spank Harder!
  • Dictators Die Hard—You're Looking At My Chest, Aren't You?
  • I love the composition of this cover. Logically, this must depict two different scenes, but I like the idea of her staring down the gunman. "Oh, am I distracting you?" "I hope you're man enough to make the shot." "You *better* not be pointing that thing at me." "Hurry up so we can go riding, you tiresome lout!"
  • She borrowed her ascot from a foppish squirrel.


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Best things about this other cover:

  • Jenga!
  • I hate to think where that thing's been.
  • "I'm thinking of calling my book 'Tender is the Night'" "That title's taken." "Hmmm…."


Page 123~

I stared at McMahon, and Hibbs scowled at me. Nobody said anything. It was an uncomfortable moment. 

This took 9th place in Yakima County's "Write Like Raymond Carver Day" competition.

~RP

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1 comment:

Zeke said...

Clearly there's a tie-in between the two books, as the woman in the first has been transmogrified into the statue in the second. Either that or the artist has only one vision of breasts: hard and cold as brass, immune to, or defiant of, gravity, with nipples that could poke your eyes out.