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292 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Shaft successes behind him, Tidyman has written a somewhat more seriously intentioned novel of Cleveland detectives during an all too body-filled period of two or three days -- hard rain, black sky, a cold wind coming down off Lake Erie, and a killer cop as a hit man for the local Mafia. The reader is swept from scene to bleak scene of violence, sinister pizza parlors, bars, hijackings, gunnings, rapes with plenty of police procedure. Detective James Dempsey, aging, balding, divorced by a frigid wife who boils like a screaming kettle whenever he tries to visit his kids, is an empty man who sells his soul to the big hoods and plans to start over in South America when his nest egg outweighs his leaden heart. But the department has finally started looking into the six deaths for which he's responsible. While the Mafia steps up its truck heists,…
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- Title Line of Duty
- Author Tidyman, Ernest
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 292
- Language ENG
- Publisher Little, Brown, Boston
- Date 1974
- ISBN 9780316845113
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Boston:: Little, Brown & Company, 1974.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with silver spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Brown endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Officer James Dempsey is what any police force fears most: a killer copy for hire. Dempsey kills for pay and doctors the reports. Nobody asks questions. But one report has too many stray bullets and the police start hunting down a traitor in their midst. This follows Cleveland's police force through a city on the verge of explosion. Ethnic neighborhoods cry for law and order while a ghetto smolders. A sniper plays God by murdering the wicked. The mob hijacks trucks with an efficiency that baffles detectives. For the police from the flatfoot to the lab man, it's all in the line of duty. But Dempsey, the perfect hit man, isn't on the blotter.''
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Little, Brown & Co. , Boston, 1974. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. 22 cm. Subject: Crime.
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Boston:: Little Brown,, (1974.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First printing. Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp.
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Boston: Little Brown, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple tiny tears on the rear panel. One of Tidyman's few non-*Shaft* titles, about a killer cop in Cleveland. Tidyman won an Academy Award for his screenplay for *The French Connection*.
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author to Shirley Jackson's biographer, Judy Oppenheimer Loth: "For Judy Loth, in the line of love. Ernest." The recipient had a continuing relationship with Tidyman, and was the dedicatee of Tidyman's final Shaft novel, *The Last Shaft*. One of Tidyman's few non-Shaft titles, about a killer cop in Cleveland.
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