Title: The Maltese Falcon
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Cover artist: Leo Manso / Stanley Meltzoff
Yours for: Hell no
The following is so self-evidently awesome that I refuse to sully it with my usual commentary:
Here's the original 1944 cover:
And now here's the cover of the DUST JACKET (you heard me) they issued several years later (this image went on to grace the cover of a later Permabooks edition)
Page 123:
"Morning, Sam. Set down and bite an egg." The hotel-detective stared at Spade's temple. "By God, somebody maced you plenty!"
~RP
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