Jo Gar's Caseboook Tapa blanda - 2002

Black Mask Press / Crippen & Lan, 2002-12-02. Paperback. Good. 0.7992 8.9016 5.9016.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade papeback, fine in shrinkwrap. Published in association with Black Mask Press. 18 stories. Also includes two introductions by E. R. Hagemann, one of hardboiled fictions best critics and most devoted reader. Also includes a publication history and A Bibliography of Whitfield works appearing in Black Mask. Ellery Queen wrote: "Whitfield is a much too neglected member of the Hammett-Chandler hardboiled school." Dashiell Hammett himself praised the Whitfield stories for their "naked action pounded into tough compactness by staccato, hammerlike writing." Previously announced but long delayed (as we searched for more stories) Jo Gar's Casebook is the first collection of Whitfield's extraordinary tales. In the February 1930 issue of Black Mask, a new character was introduced to the American detective story. Jo Gar was both a classic "thinking" sleuth and a tough man of action who inhabited an… Leer más

2002. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Black Mask Press, 2002. Very Good. Trade paperback with illustrated glossy covers. Light corner curl and 2 small coffee stains on page edge. (character defects). 9 X 6 with 282 pp.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.