No! No! The Woman!

(no dust jacket) [a decent reading/reference copy only: spine a bit turned, light staining on front cover, spine cloth somewhat faded, surface deterioration to cloth at bottom edge of rear cover]. Hard-boiled mystery novel, the author's first. The jacket blurb (printed on the ffep; there is NO jacket on this book) name-drops like crazy, calling the author "as distinctly original as S.S. Van Dine and Dashiell Hammett," and noting that Klein had "formerly worked with Ben Hecht on a Chicago newspaper." By 1935, he had published two more mystery novels and a Hollywood-themed novel, "She Loves Me"; the rest is silence. (He died in 1948, at the age of 51.) A previous cataloguer of this book has noted in pencil on the ffep that there's a reference to Dashiell Hammett on page 270 of the text, and sure enough, at that point (very late in the book) the protagonist states: "Yes, John, I've given up Dashiell-Hammetting."

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Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

Year: (c.1932)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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