Description
Satterthwait, Walter. Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan 2006 First Edition. “First Edition” stated. 182 pages. Signed by both the author and the publisher in 2006. A clean, attractive copy. “The latest from one of crime fiction’s most reliable publishers of edgy noir goes in a different, but delightfully entertaining, direction: a historical mystery drawing on the life of hard-boiled pulp author Raoul Whitfield, who, in the 1920s, was the most highly paid mystery writer in the country. In 1933, Whitfield married socialite Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer, and the pair lived the money-guzzling jazz-age life in a sumptuous home near Las Vegas, New Mexico. After a tempestuous separation in 1935, Emily died, apparently a suicide, though many thought she was murdered. Whitfield, who quit writing after the marriage, never escaped the cloud of suspicion surrounding his wife’s death.” – BL Book: Near Fine. Dust Jacket: Near Fine.
