Mistress of Fear by Hank Janson (Alexander Moring Ltd, 1958)

Tonight there is a full moon over the UK, and I was looking forward all day to going for a nice walk this evening in the crisp winter air... that is until the sky clouded up mid-afternoon and it started pissing it down. Bah! I was gonna post a full moon-related book cover to tie in with this celestial non-event, but hey, you know what? I feel more like going for a weird, amateurish, totally f-ed up rendering of a woman jumping(?) out of a window.

Superb!

Hank Janson may have the business of grimly utilitarian thriller names all sewn up ("Murder", "Conflict" etc), but I think he deserves some kind of special recognition for "Sinister Rapture" and "Amorous Captive".

The opening page is spectacularly dull, so if it's alright with you I'm going no further;