Another Barnaby Duplication

It keeps on happening! This gun-toting lady, as seen on this Raymond Chandler cover from Black Lizard/Vintage US...



..has now appeared on this Penguin US edition of Philip Kerr's latest. Her plunging cleavage is a little less plunging this time round.



(I also messed with it back here.)

Chandlerama

Unlike music albums, books are constantly repackaged and re-covered. It's only rarely that the original jackets are resurrected, as with these new "he's been dead 50 years!" hardcover reissues of five of Raymond Chandler's Marlowe books, due from Penguin/Hamish Hamilton at the end of the month.







You can see a "series look" was emerging for the last two books, even in their first incarnations. (EDIT: These were actually the first two books, and I was confused. Sorry about that.)

Just for the hell of it, here are a few covers unlikely ever to be resurrected, each for a book to which Chandler contributed.





The "classic novel" by Chandler in that issue of 'Fantastic' magazine goes by the unlikely title Professor Bingo's Snuff.

UPDATE: Commenter Tulkinghorn helpfully pointed me towards this post on the Penguin blog, which details the interesting and suprisingly convoluted process involved in "recovering" these jacket designs.