The Cat, the Devil, the Last Escape
Between the look in the cat’s eyes and the warped perspective of his surroundings, I’m guessing there’s more than catnip at work here.
The Cat, the Devil, the Last Escape
Between the look in the cat’s eyes and the warped perspective of his surroundings, I’m guessing there’s more than catnip at work here.
Oversized author names aside, I actually think this is pretty decent.
I like the title, and the fonts at least don’t horrify me, but the illustration needs a professional artist. It’s a cute idea but more like a sketch for a cover idea, not a cover itself. Close, though.
To steal a overused quote: “I’ll have what he’s having.”
Holy SH*T! You guys don’t know who that is? That author? Shirley Rousseau, the Joe Grey series? (Joe is a cat, as in, “all cats are grey…” yadda.
Wow. Just…wow. I can’t believe it.
Shirley Rousseau Murphy! Thanx for tip (looked up name and downloaded [i]Cat and the Money[/i]). So that’s Dulcie on this cover?
Ahem. The covers in this series are cartoon but polished; this one looks like a rushed sketch. Other than that I am surprised to see it here.
The perspective just killed it for me.
Looking out the railway car door at the tracks parallel to the car, the ties are laid at a slant to the rails. That was an experiment at the Steilcoom Railyard. The ties rocked as weight from the wheels was applied first to one end then the other of each tie. The accumulative effect led to the unfortunate Steilcoom Railyard Disaster which occurred shortly after the time when this novel is set.
And my mistake. This story’s protagonist is a yellow tom cat, so he’s not the orange tabby Dulcie, true love of Joe Grey.
Honestly–I thought it was Dulcie, too. I am still so gobsmacked at seeing it here…wow. I’ve had clients’ books that have appeared here–Edgar winners, etc.–but the first time I’ve seen one at this level.
“Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin’?”