SOMEWHERE IN THIS CITY de Procter, Maurice - 1954

N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First American edition, so stated. (Originally pub. by Hutchinson: London,1954 as "Hell is a City"). Light wear else very good in dust jacket, spine sunned, moderately soiled, lightly chipped with wear along the folds. Somewhere in the city a young girl, with a bookie's profits chained to her wrist, started to the bank. She never got there. Somewhere in the city Don Starling, handsome, arrogant, was hiding out-- using, as he always had, the women who couldn't resist him. When hardened criminal Don Starling escapes from jail, killing a prison guard in the process, Inspector Philip Martineau knows he will stop at nothing to make good his escape. The two men have known each other since childhood, and Starling blames Martineau for his incarceration a decade earlier. As the story hurtles to its conclusion, the two men meet in a final, violent confrontation. "Hell Is a City" is a 1960 British crime thriller film based on the 1954 novel of the same title by Maurice Procter. Written and directed by Val Guest, it was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and filmed in Manchester. It was partly inspired by the British New Wave films and resembles American film noir. Stanley Baker as Inspector Harry Martineau, John Crawford as Don Starling, and Donald Pleasence as Gus Hawkins." --Wikipedia. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/Good-Very Good. Book.