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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Paperback 662: The Saint in Europe / Leslie Charteris (Avon 611)

Paperback 662: Avon 611 (1st ptg, 1954)

Title: The Saint in Europe
Author: Leslie Charteris
Cover artist: Uncredited

Yours for: $10

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Best things about this cover:
  • The Saint, starring in ... a PSA about V.D.
  • Her shoes are amazing.
  • Her dress isn't bad either.
  • I like how they're both standing in their own little pools of light. It's not a dynamic painting, but it's got an ambiguity and tension and sexiness that I like.

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Best things about this back cover:
  • "Gayest!"
  • Cows that wear diamonds? Oh, Europe. 
  • I always did like that little Saint icon.

Page 123~

"Just think of me," said the Saint, "as a guy with a weakness for puzzles, and an incorrigible asker of questions."

~RP

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