Wednesday 3 May 2017

Killer's Choice book covers

We mentioned on the bonus episode the extreme differences between Paul and Stephen's 1970s Penguin editions of the book and Morgan's Allison & Busby edition from 2000. The evidence is here:


What inspired the publishers to put day-glo green text on a grey background is beyond us. Believe us when we say it looks much worse in real life than this picture suggests! Allison & Busby are still publishing crime fiction, amongst other things and it appears they've got their graphic design sorted now. They don't publish any 87th Precinct novels any more. 

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