Jolie's Book Design Review

This cover is my favorite because it uses a clever, yet minimalist approach. At first glance, the cover seems like it was just dropped into a generic outer shell of an already designed series and then modified to fit the story. But when you look again, you notice that it really has been thought out. How clever it is to have a creepy hand steeling the penguin logo right off of the book titled "The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime". The "gotcha!" spotlight shining right on the scene of the crime fluidly directs the readers eye right through the design and to the title of the book. As I'm trying to design book covers of my own, I know that it is not an easy task to be so creatively simple, and for that reason alone, this cover is my favorite.