Slippery Hitch

(price-clipped) [modest shelfwear to book, a couple of tiny nicks in lower edges of covers, light wear to extremities, a little dust-soiling and minor spotting to top edge of text block; the jacket has some shallow chipping along the top edge, a bit of wear at the base of the spine and some light soiling to the rear panel]. Psychological thriller about "two brothers held together by a strange and precarious bond, the devotion of one man to his brother who is the victim of intermittent, uncontrollable urges to steal and rape." This British author, whose first novel, "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands," had been published in 1940, was pretty hot in the late 1940s, at least as far as the movies were concerned. At the time "Slippery Hitch" was published, the 1948 movie version of "Kiss the Blood," starring Burt Lancaster, was still in release; an English film written by Butler, THIRD TIME LUCKY (which was also based on one of his novels), was currently playing; and a little later in 1949, RKO bought the film rights to yet another Butler novel, "Mad With Much Heart," which would eventually reached the screen in 1951 under the title ON DANGEROUS GROUND. This novel also had its movie rights snapped up, but unlike the others no movie version was ever made. Oh, well, three out of four is a better track record than most authors achieve.

Product Info

Publisher: Rinehart & Company

Year: (c.1949)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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