Book covers

I DO like designing book covers.  Much of the action in my most recent Luke Darbyshere murder mystery (a more accurate description than crime, I think) takes place around a gallery, wherein the owner has been murdered.  I planned to use an image of a printing plate, since that was the murder weapon, but the first attempt incorporated a ruined abbey sent against a Yorkshire Dales background.
Next day I decided that was too P D James ('Devices and Desires').

Retaining Yorkshire Dales, inverting plate, adding red bloodstains - YES!!  Looked great, I uploaded and received it and was well-pleased.
Except ... except it spoke, to me, at least, of Mediaeval jousting, and ladies, velvet-gowned and offering favours.


Another try; a browse through my 'resources' file.  One shouted out - an accidental stain, not even a print,  But suggestive of any number of things.  Uploaded, re-shaped, changed text and colour, and there it was!