We showed you a 1955 Avon Publications cover for Charlotte Jay’s award winning thriller Beat Not the Bones, and above you see an alternate cover from Avon that came in 1966. We don’t remember the main character ever being tied to a tree, and we’re sure she certainly never wore the sexy rag you see here, but those are the vagaries of good girl art. Both the 1955 cover and this one depict scenes that didn’t happen in the story, but the earlier version is a but more true to the spirit of Jay’s tale, where the above goes for pure titillation. We love them both. This one is by the always excellent Ron Lesser, and his original painting appears below.
