A Man Without breath at the Chime of a City Clock

Another new Philip Kerr novel, another cover image duplication...

Due early 2013

Published 2010

This has happened before (see here), and suggests a shortage of sultry femme fatales in the world of stock photographs. The Taylor novel is pretty good, by the way: Patrick Hamilton/Julian Maclaren-Ross reimagined as low-key crime novel.

On another note entriely, I was entertained by this graphic from Delayed Gratification magazine:

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Given that only a small part of these books is sex, when that's their only reason for existence, it's astonishing how much woeful prose their devotees are willing to swallow to get to the rude bits. It hardly seems worth it.