Curtains for the Editor

Between 1943 and 1951, Dell produced thrift editions—often mysteries, often hard-boiled—characterized by a detailed map on the back cover: often a “scene of the crime,” showing, say, the layout of a police station, a blueprint of a mansion, a neighborhood peopled with suspects and characters. Some maps are more stylized, others more colorful and precise. But all of them give as good and tantalizing a glimpse into a book’s plot as any more conventional flap copy.
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