![]() ![]() Still, if the circle represents a setting sun and the shooters’ outstretched arms are a horizontal cloud, who else could it be? It looks like a Robert McGinnis effort to me, but nossir, I will not make wild and spurious claims without some anonymous internet user to back me up. ![]() ![]() Thanks to Jim Gardner for providing this Soft Touch cover that I had never seen before. Perhaps a reader who still has functioning synapses could remind us all. There are at least four versions of this particular cover, but even all that repetition can’t make me think of a scene from the book that involves a birthday cake, let alone one that is dripping blood. ![]() Update (): Yikes! Steve Scott was … um … how do I say this? … wrong. Steve Scott says that Shine says this was done by Robert McGinnis. Update (): I never would have thought it. Many of these “double” covers were drawn by William Schmidt, but I can’t confirm this one. Lazy artist? Editor’s goof? Intentional pattern breaking? Alas, we shall never know. This cover is obviously a member of the Travis McGee “double” series, where a reasonably large main illustration at the bottom is paired with a smaller related companion illustration in the upper left, like this one, but in this case there is no companion illustration. Cover Artist: Robert McGinnis William SchmidtĬurious. ![]()
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