Our recent story about copycat covers has already incited one Rap Sheet reader, British novelist Ray Banks (The Saturday Boy), to send in another example of publishers employing look-alike art on their book jackets--and hoping nobody will notice. (Hah!) These two covers come from Charlie Huston’s first Joe Pitt vampire private-eye novel, Already Dead (2006), published by Del Rey; and a reissue of Derek Raymond’s 1984 book (the debut entry in his Factory series), He Died with His Eyes Open, which is due out from Serpent’s Tail in September.Sharp-eyed readers are encouraged to e-mail us more copycat covers, and we’ll post them occasionally.
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There are identical images on the UK hardcover version of Sheila Quigley's Run for Home and the UK (and US) version of Hakan Nesser's Borkmann's Point:
Quigley: http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1844134024.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Nesser: http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0333989848.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
(hope these haven't already been pointed out...)
I don't know if this is still interesting to you five years later, but this same image is used on Penguin's cover of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, a so-called "classic" of Canadian literature and which appears in practically every high-school classroom in the country.
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.ca/Penguin-Modern-Classics-Apprenticeship-Kravitz/dp/0143051466/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1296940808&sr=8-2
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