Books and their covers, we'll never learn will we? In this case I was taken in not by the jacket design which, to be honest, would have had me by-passing it as a cheapo-teeno, but by that sneaky line at the bottom "Author of Damaged Goods".
Further reading suggestion: You might want to get acquainted with LV in the [[Dishonour by Helen Black|previous episode]], or if you want another feisty female lead this time in the 1960s underworld, check out that other [[Damaged Goods by June Hampson|Damaged Goods]] by June Hampson.