Never Judge A Book By Its Cover...

...but the opening sentence of certain books reeled me in straight away; hook, line and sinker. 

Classic example:


“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French" - (The Luck of the Bodkins by P.G. Wodehouse).