This is a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy, but kept up by Lynn’s Book Blog.
“Murder most foul, as in the best it is.”
This weeks theme: A cover featuring a murder scene.
My Choice: A Study in Scarlet
For Friday Face-Off: Smoke I chose The Complete Sherlock Holmes, so this one is similar but not the same!
Covers:
Digireads.com 2005 | Penguin Classics 2001 | BBC Books 2012 | Penguin 2008
Penguin Books 2014 | Edimat Libros 2006 | Balzer + Bray 2015 | Mondadori 2004
Penguin 2011 | Wisehouse Classics 2016 | Classic Mysteries | Livre de Poche 1995
Global Notícias 2009 | Modern Library 2003 | Headline 2006 | ? 2011
There are 1,302 Editions of A Study In Scarlet on Goodreads. I am sure a lot of those are duplicates but that is still a LOT of covers! I picked the firs 16 covers from Goodreads for today’s post because there is no way I could include all the covers!
Least Favorites:
Favorites:
Winner:
Which one is your favorite? Do you agree with my pick? Let me know in the comments!
Perfectly Tolerable 
I definitely agree with your choice. I also agree with the least favourite. The second one you show was definitely the one I went ugh when I saw it.
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Its awful! I know dead bodies are unnatural but they just went to far with the weird angles of his hands and head! What were they thinking?
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What an excellent choice of book for this week’s theme – I also think my favourite is the Penguin Classic cover. Some of them do look a bit cartoonish, which isn’t remotely the right tone for Conan Doyle. Have a great weekend, Brittany:)
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🙂 I think that is why I liked the Penguin Classic cover best! It has the right tone for Sherlock Holmes! There are others that aren’t even close! Thanks 😀 you too!
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Absolutely!
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I like the simplicity of the Modern Library edition, but I also love the one you chose. So many covers, it’s nice to have a good selection!
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I think I would like the Modern Library one better if the guy was bigger. I just feel like he is out or proportion with the gates?
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I love a good mystery! I need to go and read all of the Sherlock Holmes books! Great post.
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I don’t usually like mysteries but I love Sherlock Holmes! Thanks 🙂
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Ooh I liked your pick. Penguin covers are usually good. So many good options though!
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🙂 Penguin does have a lot of good covers!
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Great choice! Lots to choose from this week. Weirdly enough, my eye was kind of drawn to one of your least favorites, the Penguin 2008. I don’t know if I like it, but it’s certainly eye catching. The murder victim’s face kind of freaks me out though, lol.
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I don’t disagree haha. It is very eye-catching. Just not in a good way (at least for me!) 🙂
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Funnily enough I wondered about looking at some of the Sherlock covers for this theme. I love your choice although I would find it difficult to chose between both favourites as the blue cover is lovely too.
Lynn 😀
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It was difficult to choose! They are so different from each other but both still awesome!
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I love that BBC Books cover!! So weird. But… You know how I love weird!! 😅😂
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I wondered if people would like that one! I know a lot of people hate movie covers but I know so many people LOVE that version of Sherlock so I wondered if that would influence anyone haha. I like that one too! 😀
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