HALO IN BLOOD - INSCRIBED

by John Evans, pseud. of Howard Browne

$450 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. First Edition. The hand-boiled author's first book, and the first to feature Chicago private detective Paul Pine. Paul Pine, solo sleuth, from a pauper's funeral to a five body carnage, is almost sunk without trace by the girl whose marriage he is to prevent. Pine's snooping lands him in wrong with the police, gets him quite a view of Chicago's underworld, and earns him more

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