HEADED FOR A HEARSE: The Second Bill Crane Mystery

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First edition, so stated. Red boards with black skeleton holding the "Members' Editon" scroll on the front. Wear along edges, spine slightly darkened, cloth has slight wrinkle, rear cover has a couple of sunned spots. Previous owners name and date at inside front cover, a vcery good copy. Basis for the 1937 movie 'The Westland Case' starring Preston Foster, Carol Hughes and Frank Jenks. Robert Westland s date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wife s grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who s as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago s most brutal criminal element. Crane s got just six days to suss out the real killer-he sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters, aided by a lime squeezer, a quart of whiskey, a monkey wrench, a taxicab, a stopwatch, and a deep sea diver -- but in 1930s Chicago, everyone s got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it s too late. Chicago crime beat journalist-turned-novelist Jonathan Latimer blends hardboiled detective fiction with a shot of screwball comedy in the fast-moving, realistic 1935 baffler, an exciting combination of the macabre and the humorous. N° de ref. del artículo 020863

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