Don't have time to do a proper Forgotten Book entry, so a photo of a Max Brand translated in Finland, but published in Swedish will have to do.The book was published by Schildts (still in business, after all these years, but doing mainly books in Finnish) in 1949. It was a part of their Pocket-serie series that had 23 books in it. It was one of the first real paperback series published in Finland. They had also one other Jim Silver book in the line. I don't know who the cover illustrator is, but the art is pretty nice.
The title of the book means "Jim Silver, the hero from Arizona" and the book belongs to the Silvertip series. I have no way of knowing if the Swedish translation is abridged or done from a condensed version of the original magazine version, as I don't really read Swedish. Actually I'm going to throw the book away (if no one comes to rescue), since, well, we are moving and something needs to be thrown away. I already started from a book club edition of a Tess Gerritsen novel.
More Forgotten Books here, at George Kelley's blog!
5 comments:
That she's wearing that dress and hat together is, to say the least, incongruous.
Yeah, she does look weird. (Had to look up the word in the dictionary - didn't know the actual meaning, though I've seen the word a hundred times.)
Maybe she just woke up after a rough night. "What's this thing in my head? Must've picked it up at that joint in Tijuana."
Or the artist thought...hmmm, doesn't look Mexican enough in just the dress...lets give her a male peasant's hat.
A male peasant's *small* hat..
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