Another favourite from last month's post was the cover of THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN by Victor Heringer designed by Pablo Delcan for New Directions. I really like the combination of type and colour palette.
I've added new content to my Gumroad store. Now you can enjoy poetry, science fiction short stories, a full length mystery novel or a full length romance.
I've republished these with new covers as the world needs brighter content. Over the next few days I'll share each one.
I'm halfway through "Agatha Christie's Poirot" by Mark Aldridge and it's being a delight (swipe for the cover). My preference goes to the context, discussing, and analysis Aldridge does for each work and adaptation, but the book is full of "extras" that add up to the arguments, like unpublished excerpts from Christie's autobiography, interviews, letters, reader reports, reactions at the time to the book's publication, visual and radio adaptations, some of which did not survive, but others that are still available, showing the rigorous and huge amount of work and research Aldridge must have put into this book.
The text is accompanied by book covers from editions through time and different countries. Some of these, depicting Poirot. As a reader that sometimes feels the adaptation doesn't portray the characters quiet as I imagined them, I do understand the resistance Christie had with depictions of Poirot. Still, I find it interesting to see how he was portrayed.
So, I thought I would share some of Portuguese book covers that depict Poirot. These are from the Portuguese collection, #ColecçãoVampiro, that was quite important for the dissemination of the genre in Portugal. The collection has more than 700 volumes and it was published between 1947 and 2008.
The books from the image (by order of the publication in this collection):
The Labours of Hercules (same in PT)
Dead Man's Folly (translated as Poirot and the Macabre Game)
The Clocks (translated as Poirot and the 4 Clocks)
Curtain Poirot's Last Case (The Curtain Drops The Last Case of Poirot)
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe/ The Patriotic Murders (same in PT)
Problem at Pollensa Bay and other stories (translated as Poirot and Company and with an introduction, a list of titles in the collection, a list of original titles, and a list of characters with notes by Joel Lima)
The #TBR tin has spoken.
I've been dipping in and out of "Poirot, The Greatest Detective in the World" by Mark Aldridge since it came out, but I wanted to read it "properly" :-)
I started it yesterday's night thinking I would read just a little bit, but I'm must confess this is one most difficult to put it down 😍
Husband and I took Suchet DVDs out and are watching them in order, I'm also re-reading some of the books because of that, so the time for "Poirot" couldn't be better.
Can I just add how beautiful I think this cover is?
Tim White (1952 – 2020) - Cover for ‘The Mask of Cthulhu’, 1987