Level 1
What are your first impressions as you look at the cover?
Level 2
Does the book cover have an aspect that reflects the character, setting, or plot of the novel?
Level 3
If you could have designed the book cover what would you have chosen?
Well, the classic that I read this month was John Dickson Carr’s 1946 Locked-Room mystery He Who Whispers.
The cover of the edition that I picked up was the staid Penguin cover giving no indication of the story whatsoever.
That was kind of disappointing because I do enjoy looking at the covers of the books though I don’t think I’ve ever chosen a book just because of its cover.
A look at the other editions and I found that some of them had rather salacious covers:
The cover that I liked best was this:
This is the virtually inaccessible tower where the murder is committed.
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Submitted for the April prompt of A Classics Challenge.
a hot cup of pleasure 
Dear Blogger,Your post about the cover of books reminded me of something.Some years back, Purva was assessed as needing ESL classes at her school – ESL means \”English as a second language\” and is generally meant for those whose English is weak. We were somewhat annoyed at this since this is a kid who has to be forced to talk in Hindi. But, Purva seemed to like her teacher and so, I let it go.Sometime later, I was reading \”The Frog Prince\” to Purva and I asked her the moral of the story at the end. She replied, \”Don't judge a book by its cover\”. I was impressed that she understood this and found out that she had learnt about it in her ESL class.So, I stopped complaining about the ESL class and adopted a motto – \”Don't judge a class by its name\”.- Nitu
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