She took her publisher to task over a cover illustration because it made him look too tall, and she regularly criticised actors who played him in films.

The cover illustration was the first time that a leading magazine had put two guys on a wedding cake on the cover.

The cover was sludge-green cardboard, the cover illustration was a simple outline drawing, and the pages were unnumbered.

Once fully opened, the cover illustration turns out to be an old 15th-century map.

In the same years, he also created the cover illustration for a number of novels from other publishers.