Hard-boiled Tale in Softcover Glory

If, for some odd reason, you haven’t been keeping up with Killer Covers’ tribute series to John D. MacDonald—timed to what would have been that author’s 100th birthday (on July 24)—then note that it has now entered its second week. Today’s fabulous paperback front comes from an early 1970s edition of The Executioners, the novel that was adapted into the Robert Mitchum/Gregory Peck suspense film Cape Fear. See the cover for yourself here.