Callingham's Girl
by Roche, Arthur Somers, and Ethel Pettit Roche
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, half of ffep torn away, light dampstain on rear cover, spine turned, front jacket text glued to front pastedown]. Scarce crime novel in which a detective and an orchestra leader team up to solve the murder of a notorious gamber/gangster. "A vivid picture of New York after dark. Gangsters, chorus girls, and society looking for a thrill, move through these pages, adding color and character to a story that races along on a high note of exciting suspense." Touted on the jacket blurb as the author's "latest novel," omitting to mention that he had actually been dead for a couple of years (since February 1935). This didn't seem to put much of a crimp in his output, however, this being the fifth of six novels to appear posthumously -- and the only one to bear his wife's name as co-author, which would seem to imply that the others had already been finished at the time of his demise. .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14666
- Title
- Callingham's Girl
- Author
- Roche, Arthur Somers, and Ethel Pettit Roche
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Orchestra Conductors, Gangsters, Night Clubs, Thirties
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