BURNETT, W. R.

£1,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Silver Eagle. First edition, from the collection of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (1941-2021), reflecting his fascination with the Jazz Age, and love of crime fiction and noir, with his posthumous bookplate.Published two years after the author's genre-defining debut Little Caesar (1929), this gangster novel "focuses on a business investor trying to stay clean in the underworld of Prohibition-era Chicago" (LARB). Burnett's early novels shaped the conventions of noir in both literature and cinema.

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