The Man Who Knew Hammett
by Vincent McConnor (1907-1997)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0312931093
- ISBN 13
- 9780312931094
- Seller
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About This Item
313 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The gimmick here is Zeke Gahagan, ""the world's oldest private eye,"" an 82-year-old with diminishing gastric capabilities and a dreary tendency to recall what his friend and inspiration ""Dash"" Hammett might have done in a similar situation. Actress Fay Manning, an old chum, asks Zeke to find Laurence Knight, an actor who disappeared after he indiscreetly let something slip at a dinner party--and someone later retaliated by spraying his garage door with bullets. Also at that dinner were: a director, a costume designer, a composer, and in spirit--though too sick to attend--a movie director. They were commemorating the 50th anniversary of the rape/strangulation unsolved murder of movie enchantress Kara Kolvang. Does the missing Knight actually know whodunit? Soon his look-alike grandson Lars is shot dead; Tim Kerrigan, the man he implicated over dinner, is strangled; and Zeke is off to Kara's old stamping grounds--the Scandinavian community of Solvang. There, Knight is scheduled to be honorary marshal in a local holiday parade; a young man is ominously surveying the windmills in the parade path; an aged Indian is stalking the streets with a rifle slung over his shoulder; a Mexican is making indiscreet inquiries about Knight; and Zeke finds love (again) and finally pieces together who, what, why, and how and confronts the guilty. Condition: Fine in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS005348
- Title
- The Man Who Knew Hammett
- Author
- Vincent McConnor (1907-1997)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0312931093
- ISBN 13
- 9780312931094
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- MYSTERY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Octavo
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