Showing posts with label Michael Kirkham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Kirkham. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 August 2009

Various Approaches to the Problem of Sherlock Holmes

Recent approaches to a much-covered subject...

Michael Kirkham for White's Books (see also here):


Coralie Bickford-Smith for Penguin (see also here):


Unknown for Vintage Classics UK:


Unknown for Atlantic Crime Classics (see also here):


And finally, Glen Orbik for Hard Case Crime (see also here):


UPDATE: Karen Horton, no mean designer herself, points me towards two more recent Holmesian covers.

The first is by Jen Wang, for Penguin US:


The second is by Rob Grom, for Thomas Dunne Books:


UPDATE 2: Regarding the Hard Case Crime cover, the ever-wise Tulkinghorn points out this extensive discussion of it with the publisher here, which also refers to this Orwell cover.