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Great stories of suspense

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Description: Four complete novels (Dick Francis' Enquiry, Agatha Christie's What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!, Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, and Ross Mcdonald's The Far Side of the Dollar), eleven stories, and a novella.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1974.
Call number: 636047
ISBN: 0394492927; 9780394492926
Provenance: Gift of Philip D. Nathanson, May 2022.
Dimensions: 24 cm
Associated people: Macdonald, Ross,; Nathanson, Philip D.,

Mysterious railway stories

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"In this spine-chilling anthology, William Pattrick has selected a range of work, from Charles Dickens, who effectively created the idea of railway mystery stories, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, right through to present-day writers such as Robert Block and August Derleth. Also included is Agatha Christie's 'The girl in the train'"--Back cover.

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The far side of the dollar

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"In this new and moving novel, Lew Archer, Macdonald's celebrated California investigator, is hired by the principal of a private reform school to trace a missing boy. What appears to be an ordinary matter of juvenile delinquency is suddenly magnified, as Archer plunges into a web of murder and extortion. He ranges all over the Far West, tracking down men and women who are pursuing the fast buck, and hating to be reminded of what is waiting on the far side of the last dollar. To the hard-boiled story of violence and death, Ross Macdonald has brought substance and depth of characterisation. His novels have a social range and moral dimension that, in combination with a striking prose style and narrative drive, provide the reader with a rewarding experience"--Half-title page.

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Foreword: an unfinished story in an academic setting: autograph

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A collection of material assembled by Philip D. Nathanson related to the writer Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald). The collection includes drafts of novels, notebooks, screenplays, book reviews, essays, correspondence, and ephemera. The manuscript material includes drafts, notes, and introductions for the novels Black Money, The Galton Case, The Instant Enemy, and The Underground Man. Significant correspondents and companies in the collection include, among others: Don Freeman, Lydia Freeman, Douglas Heyes, Walter Hill, Marc Jaffe, Robert R. Kirsch, Margaret Millar, Dorothy Olding, Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Jack Smith, Harold Norling Swanson, Tracy Keenan Wynn, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Harold Ober Associates.

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