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Post by allthingshorror on Jul 11, 2009 15:19:11 GMT
This edition Goldmann (1967) A Mike Faraday crime novel - just posted it because of the weird Vincent Price still taken from the 1969 AIP horror film The Oblong Box!
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Post by andydecker on Nov 13, 2023 10:34:30 GMT
At the time publisher Goldmann did most (maybe all) of Copper's Mike Faraday novels in its crime novel imprint. Back then the paperback publishers who did large crime novel imprints had their distinct colour scheme. A bit like the yellow Italian Il Giallo Mondadori. Goldmann was red, Ullstein was yellow and Rowohlt was black. Goldmann build its success on Edgar Wallace of all writers, starting in 1952, the popularity of the Wallace movies later gave it another push. The program at first was very conservative, Victor Gunn, Arthur Upfield, John Creasy, a few Christie's and so on. All of those were endlessly re-issued in later decades. In the 70s they added a lot of P.I. novels, both soft (Rex Stout) and a bit more hardboiled (Hartley Howard, Brett Halliday, Thomas Dewey), but mostly they choose books from the British market. But the cover layout remained the same, mostly random movie stills or photos which had nothing to do with the (sometimes edited for length) content. |
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