Vintage Agatha Christie Cover Art Icons x3

I was recently delighted to discover ruvolea's great vintage Agatha Christie cover icons at tinysquares via stonepicknicking_okapi, but as I went through them, I had the feeling there were some vintage covers that I'd seen that weren't there; accordingly, I tried to find them. In fact, I couldn't find them - maybe they're covers from Heyer and not Christie? Or Sayers? - but I found a few others anyway. Two of them didn't make satisfactory icons, but three of them did.

These are free to use and modify! Credit appreciated.



1. After the Funeral 2. Cards on the Table 3. The Under Dog and Other Stories

Uncharitable aside

I mentioned before that Morris & Co, founded by William Morris for his wallpapers and textiles and furnishings etc, is still in business, and still printing his wallpapers (you know, some of them) from the original woodblocks. I'm a big fan of their website, as compared to other wallpaper manufacturers, now that I've gone through the agony of shopping for wallpaper myself (I didn't try to buy any Morris, partly because it was the wrong period, but even our wallpaper splurges cost like less than half of a Morris wallpaper. Although actually the splurge paper in our entry hall is by Sanderson, which is another brand owned by the same company now).

Anyway, I can't really fault them fot releasing new pastel, neutral, and mostly-white versions of Morris's exuberantly colorful baroque- and medieval-inspired designs: that's what's selling right now. They gotta make money. And at least they haven't stopped printing more historically accurate palettes either.

But! I totally CAN fault them for the fact that their website is borked and has been for weeks: a bunch of images won't load (navigation images, not product images) and the image labels are everywhere, getting in the way when you're trying to navigate.

I can also fault them for the fact that while the product descriptions on the old designs are unimpeachable, the product descriptions on the new designs have all been written as if in a text message or email composed on some harried British intern's phone while commuting, which is to say, they don't use punctuation correctly (or sometimes at all). Probably they should be paying their interns more or something. Or just hiring a professional copywriter, if that's what it takes to get your punctuation in order. William Morris wrote beautiful medieval romance pastiche, and it's an insult to his memory to have his wallpaper described in a style that feels like a pastiche of the Next webshop instead.