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London: Hard Case Crime, 2018. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Paul Mann. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband’s .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out—and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.On the 30th anniversary of the death of the masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the "father of Miami crime fiction," Hard Case Crime published Charles Willeford’s legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford’s rarest titles (copies of the original edition sell for hundreds of dollars), Understudy for Death still has the power to disturb, half a century after its debut. Like…
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London: Hard Case Crime, 2018. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Paul Mann. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband’s .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out—and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.On the 30th anniversary of the death of the masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the "father of Miami crime fiction," Hard Case Crime published Charles Willeford’s legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford’s rarest titles (copies of the original edition sell for hundreds of dollars), Understudy for Death still has the power to disturb, half a century after its debut. Like new. Record # 372464
- Bookseller Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Illustrator Paul Mann
- Format/Binding Softcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition None
- Edition 1st thus
- Binding Paperback
- ISBN 10 1785656988
- ISBN 13 9781785656989
- Publisher Hard Case Crime
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 2018
- Keywords mystery, Novels, Paul Mann, .
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UNDERSTUDY FOR DEATH
by Charles Willeford
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- very good
- Paperback
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- ISBN 13
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