The Chase

E-308: Walker and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Walker and Company, New York. 1962. 188 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. It is set in the chequer-board of roads in the cornfields of Michigan. A pair of professional criminals hold up a supermarket and get away in a car. Police Supt. Franklin, an ex-Navy strategist, tries to use theoretical methods to do with game theory and probability rather than traditional policing methods to catch them. The basis for the movie Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry is a 1974 American road crime drama film based on the 1963 Richard Unekis novel titled The Chase (later retitled Pursuit). Directed by John Hough, the film stars Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, and Vic Morrow. Although Jimmie Haskell is credited with writing the music score, the soundtrack contains no incidental music apart from the theme song "Time (Is Such a Funny Thing) ", sung by Marjorie McCoy, over the opening and closing titles, and a small amount of music heard over the radio. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages .