. . "For example, if a cover has a fancy hat, shoe, a purse spilled over and there is something odd in the contents like a gun, rope or candlestick (very clue-ish of me, I know) with a backdrop of a room, car or other area that is important to the story, I will be more likely to pick up the book and read the blurb than I would be to see either of the main characters in some compromising pose." . .