Brilliant Deduction cover, part one

I’m planning to continue posts about my new book with some notes on the cover design. First, though, a brief amusing note: one obvious possibility that I considered early on was something to do with newspaper front pages, but I quickly dismissed this because it’s not only cliché but, well…

…you might say that it’s been done already within this subject.

I could make a lot of further notes about this example of “parallel design,” but I’ll keep this one brief, and just say that the most interesting of them may be the many other parallels between the careers of the two works’ subjects… but that’s another story, for a whole other book. 🙂