Pulp International - Vintage cover for Nothing in Her Way by Charles Williams

Dec 14 2019

HE'S NOTHING TO HER

Musically speaking, I'm like a piano ballad and you're like a guy playing banjo with his dick. We just don't belong together.

Above, a cover for Nothing in Her Way, another excellent novel by the reliable Charles Williams, this one dealing with con men—and a masterful con woman. Like any book of this sort, the fun is in the scams within scams within scams. It starts as a real estate swindle, and broadens into thoroughbred racing, with numerous mini-stings mixed in, as the main character finds himself getting into deeper trouble trying to keep up with his slippery ex-wife. Good fun from beginning to end, tense, involving, surprising, and affecting. The copyright on this is 1953. We don't know who painted the cover, but since Barye Phillips was tapped for an entire set of Williams fronts for Gold Medal in the early 1950s, it's a reasonable bet he did this one too.

Fawcett Publications Gold Medal Books Charles Williams Barye Phillips cover art literature

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