For the first time in 50 years

I made a happy discovery at my local library with the re-issue of "Say It With Bullets" by Richard Powell. "Say It With Bullets" is a new addition to the Hard Case Crime line of fine paperbacks.

Apparently, this book hasn't been published again since its original printing in 1953. I'm really early into it, but it has already produced these two nuggets of joy:

"The only wish-you-were-here postcards he wanted to send them was a picture of a cemetery."

And

"'The trouble with the scenery in Nebraska,' he said, 'is that it doesn't hide the landscape.'"

This cover is apparently from the original Swedish edition. I really dig the red tie ....