N or M?

Anyone who has followed Boicozine since way back when will know I’m a massive fan of Tom Adams’s [tomadamsuncovered.co.uk] work on Agatha Christie books around the middle of last century. As far as this author’s concerned, they have never been bettered. The Agatha Christie series has been redressed innumerable times since the books were originally conceived. The latest batch of cover designs by David Wardle [designedbydavid.co.uk] are still not a patch on ‘the Adams’ but do add an interesting twist to the cannon. The big change is that they are primarily typographic covers, with individually rendered type styles created to suit each book. Although many seem to be a little too ‘jolly’ for my liking, they are a vast improvement on the blurry photographic style covers they are replacing and should be of interest to type freaks the world over.