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I never knew. I tried a search for "Naughty ladies in heels" I got referred to a review of a movie about a misbehaving nurse who heals patients with a shoe fetish. I think I need a better surch injun.

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It is extremely tough to pick a favorite among the Sheba Blake covers, but for me it's a toss-up between The Turn of the Screw (https://tinyurl.com/4ecj5k4u) and Sons and Lovers (https://tinyurl.com/4tw44rkd).

Some of them actually work! https://tinyurl.com/f2n4nsdr

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I scrolled through them and laughed so hard. T of the S--the cover creator has got to be high. I have noticed that there are lots of public domain books being published so a searcher in amazon can get some very odd versions of anything out of copyright. And yes, Sons and Lovers--what??? I am trying to imagine a casual buyer getting one of these and finding out that Fall of the Roman Empire doesn't include naughty ladies in heels.

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Maybe the Roman Empire fell because of naughty ladies in heels. ;)

These specimens are the work of someone who has an extremely recondite sense of humor; is high (as you note); or is a malfunctioning AI. It could be 1 to 3 of the above.

Honorable mention: https://tinyurl.com/3z2zp4pt If I had never read Wodehouse, I would think from this that he was Jack Vance. Not that there's anything wrong with Jack Vance!

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The caustic cover critic down in Australia is a great find. I think Woodhouse would like that cover.

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Thank you for destroying my previously feeble productivity altogether.

https://tinyurl.com/rh7pabsb

Is it inadvertent dada or advertent dada? Does it matter?

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I hadn't seen that one. I was innocently looking for a nice cover of Decline when I found the high-heels lady cover and there goes the weekend. I would like a job there at Sheba. Who are these people? And do they make money?

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"Who are these people? And do they make money?"

These are the pertinent questions of our era.

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and it's a bolt but hey Sheba doesn't care. This is hilarious.

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