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| Murder — Queen High Bob Wade and Bill Miller Toronto: Harlequin, 1951 |
Over the years, the Dusty Bookcase has shared some very frightening covers from Harlequin's early history. Who can forget The Corpse Came Back, the 2014 Harlequin Halloween selection.
I expect 2017's Out of the Night caused many a bad dream.
Apologies.
Murder — Queen High rates lower on the terror-inducing index, though I think you'll agree that it's pretty scary. A feline/human form threatens a gun-packing woman in a pink frock. What exactly is going on here?
The back cover only raises more questions:
Is the woman in pink the Queen? Is she Fay Jordan, "she of the sensuous figure and the mind to match"? Could it be "the curvy, swervy girl called Sin"? Whatever the answer, Murder — Queen High may just be the craziest novel Harlequin has ever published.
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Craziest Harlequin? Without reading it, I'll have to concede Perhaps, but they have put no little strangeness into the literary world over the decades...
ReplyDeleteThey sure have, Todd. Amongst those I have read, Rosemary Aubert's Firebrand is the strangest I've read, My second favourite romance novel!
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