Kate at Cross Examining Crime hosts a fun mystery cover game on Instagram called Murder Every Monday. Our assignment, should we choose to accept it, is to display book covers and titles from books you own that meet prompts which she posts well in advance (see link).
Today's theme is books with a person with facial hair (mustache, beard, etc.) on the cover.
If my collection is anything to go by, cover artists prefer to put women on the cover. And if they do put a man on the cover, more than 50% of the time he will be clean shaven. If he must have facial hair, then a mustache is probably okay. But there are few bearded gents out there...even the villains seem to avoid covering their chins.
And as I make that pronouncement about beards, here I am leading off with one. LOL
Two Bronze Pennies ~Chris Nickson
The Melting Clock ~Stuart M. Kaminsky
Murder at the Masque ~Amy Myers
Sheiks & Adders ~Michael Innes
Murder at Government House ~Elspeth Huxley
Poetic Justice ~Amanda Cross
On the Edge ~Peter Lovesey
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes ~Hugh Greene, ed
Rumpole's Last Case ~John Mortimer
Five Red Herrings ~Dorothy L. Sayers
The Man Who Knew Too Much ~G. K. Chesterton
Postscript to Poison ~Dorothy Bowers
Murder on the Orient Express ~Agatha Christie
Death for a Dietitian ~E. X. Giroux
No Coffin for the Corpse ~Clayton Rawson [look at all that facial hair on that bunny!]
Cradle of Crime ~John Buxton Hilton
Midnight Ferry to Venice ~Ben Healey
Tragedy of Z ~Ellery Queen (as Barnaby Ross)
Saint Overboard ~Leslie Charteris
The Battles of Jericho ~Hugh Pentecost
A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures ~George Baxt
The Ghost & Mrs. Jeffries ~Emily Brightwell
The Canary Murder Case ~S. S. Van Dine
The Affair of the Mutilated Mink Coat ~James Anderson
The Cannibal Who Overate ~Hugh Pentecost
The White Dress ~Mignon G. Eberhart
The D. A. Goes to Trial ~Erle Stanley Gardner
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