For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
It is difficult to reconcile these as two covers of the same book by Roald Dahl, some 50 years apart. One the original edition; the other the new Penguin paperback edition.
The new cover would seem more suited to a detective novel reading: “The dame walked in as I was stubbing out my tenth cig of the morning. I was hoping she was wearing French lingerie and little else under her conservative raincoat.”
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
Definitely prefer the original version :) The new one seems to have no relevance whatsoever to the actual story.
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The new cover would seem more suited to a detective novel reading: “The dame walked in as I was stubbing out my tenth cig of the morning. I was hoping she was wearing French lingerie and little else under her conservative raincoat.”
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