tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post9172706455719734541..comments2024-03-25T11:29:25.356-04:00Comments on Existential Ennui: Bleeck Week: The Highbinders by Oliver Bleeck (Ross Thomas); Hamish Hamilton First Edition, Cover by Beverley le Barrow, a.k.a. Beverley GoodwayNick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-50494688950625617672011-02-24T11:06:40.085-05:002011-02-24T11:06:40.085-05:00(Caution: What follows is not really a spoiler bu...(Caution: What follows is not really a spoiler but I suppose it could be if you're very strict about these things. Though if you've already seen the cover of the book and know its a very literal cover, then I am not the spoiler. Anyway, the event is not so important to the book that knowing about it would ruin anything.) <br /><br />At some point in the book, St.Ives has to attend to some business about this sword and there is a meeting in Highgate Cemetery at a monument of a piano at a grave. Naturally, St.Ives finds a dead body in the piano instead of what he came for. That is your cover.Book Gluttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569975755798562829noreply@blogger.com