Title: Black Mail / Did She Fall Or Was She Pushed?
Author: Doris Miles Disney
Cover artist: uncredited / uncredited
Yours for: $9
Best things about this cover:
- I believe the mail now prefers to be called "Negro"
- Sexy librarian look is basically ruined by the straitjacket
- "I got rejected from Haverford?! But that was my safety school! Noooo!"
- Awesome psionic powers - that horn-rimmed lady is packing the double whammy: Swirling Disorientation Vortex and Orange Implaing Lance of Death
- "Authentic background," HA ha. "The sky and fields look so real..."
Best things about this cover:
- That guy wins the award for Most Oddly Proportioned Detective. His feet are gigantic. And hazy.
- Experimental art - sometimes good, sometimes bad. Here ... thumbs down. No action? Is it cold or just desolate? What in the hell is on her head? Her vacant look does nothing for me. I'll take the freaked-out letter reader and even the freaky four-eyes on the flip side of this book over this lavender-hooded nobody.
- That title is laughably bad. The whole book should be just one word long: "Pushed."
Page 123~
Monday had figured so consistently in the pattern that this was the day on which he expected the watch to bear fruit.
That is, by far, the most exciting sentence on the page. Reading her prose is like watching paint dry. Beige paint.
~RP
P.S. where are my snarky, enthusiastic commenters? I've actually lost two "Followers" in the past week? Boo hoo. I know I have been *slightly* behind on my postings, but come on - help me out here a little. Give me a push. A little momentum. Somethin'. Thx.
