Madman's Buff

[book moderately shelfworn, bumped at top of spine, small bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith "Acres of Books") on ffep; jacket heavily edgeworn, missing about half an inch at top of spine, old yellowing tape repair across top section of rear panel, miscellaneous small nicks and tears]. "A Hank Hyer mystery," the penultimate book in this highly-regarded series of nine novels featuring Hyer, a cynical (and high-priced) New York private investigator. The author (whose real name was Rudolph Hornaday Kagey) was an NYU philosophy professor who wrote hard-boiled mysteries on the side and was a professed admirer of Dashiell Hammett. James R. McCahery, in his entry on Steel/Kagey in "Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers," states that "it is difficult to account for the neglect suffered by writer Kurt Steel," going to praise the Hyer mysteries as an "extremely fine series."

Product Info

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Year: (c.1941)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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