The opening line of the book, where the murders took place. I did a quick google search of 'Holcomb, Kansas' to find inspiration for imagery to use on my book cover.
The first images I came across was their house, these was taken around the time the murders happened.
I the found some more recent photos. I just shows that now, over 50 years on this event really shook the village and remains one of the worse things to ever happen there.
On the same page I found existing signs in and around Holcomb which I thought could work nicely as overlays in collages for my book cover imagery.
I really like the moody nature of this image and think the sign looks moody and isolated which would work well on the front cover of a crime novel.
I then found this image and thought the shapes of the signs could be nice to look at and use in some way.
Images of its location on a map were also on the page, I thought elements of the typography or the lines from this map could be useful.
I also came across old news paper clippings and I will consider using elements of newspapers and this worn out, over printed effect for my front cover.I also thought portraits of the family could be used/ the outlines to overlap and reference the family.
Google did also bring up things such as their coffins and crime scene photos, however I think they are bit too dark/ disrespectful to use on a front cover.
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