Stranger at Home / George Sanders (Leigh Brackett) c.1947 (INVINCIBLE AUS ed)

by George Sanders, Leigh Brackett

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Stranger at Home / George Sanders (Leigh Brackett) Scarce Australian published Invincible Press title Ghostwritten by Leigh Brackett and attributed to the film actor, George Sanders. The beach house party is in full swing, and the alcohol is flowing freely. Suddenly, a dead man appears. Michael Vickers had disappeared during a Mexican fishing trip with his three best friends four years ago, and no one has seen him since. But this evening, he is looking very much alive. Which is more than can be said of Harry Bryce. Harry's floating in the ocean shallows with a hole in his head, and the verdict is murder. Could Job Crandall have clubbed Harry down on the beach? Or Bill Saul? They were all there that night, all of Vicker's old "pals." Or could it have been Vicker's wife, Angie, whom Harry was in love with? Or housekeeper/secretary Joan Merrill, trying to protect Angie's interests? Or did Vickers return from the grave to exact revenge on the friend who left him for dead? Detective-Lieutenant Joe Trehearne has got a lot of suspects, but only one of them had motive enough to kill. Australian published edition by Invincible Press, Sydney Measures approx 200mm x 140mm. The Sydney-based Invincible Press produced mystery fiction novels, Westerns and soft-cover digests from about 1944 to about 1954. With a mix of American, British, and Australian authors, they published about one book per month. There are somewhere around a hundred crime novels by well known authors through this time.

• Publisher: Invincible Press
• Year: 1947
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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