This happened due to the popularity of thrillers and spy novels, which made plain old mysteries seem fit only for pathetic spinsters. It was common in the Sixties and Seventies for the cover blurbs of mystery novels to completely misrepresent the story within.To its credit, it does have very good stories that are very well written. The biggest offender is this cover for BIG ADVENTURE Issue 1, Volume 1 (September 1960), which has no story to go with the cover (the cover was reused by Battle Cry in its October 1962 issue, which likewise did not have a matching story). Happened occasionally on men's adventure magazines, usually in the "sweat mag" subgenre, where the cover did not match any of the stories inside.If they actually did show you pictures from the crime scene they would be censored, and therefore not be particularly shocking, either. The actual photo section of the book however was often anything but shocking though, showing things like the killer's high school yearbook picture ('70s hair! Shocking!), or a picture of the victims on an unrelated camping trip (they liked camping! Shocking!). A common note on the cover of a pre-Internet 1970's-80's " Airport Novel" variety True Crime book was "10 pages of shocking photographs!".
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