MURDER FOR MADME: Murder in the White Slave Racket

Knight, Adam (pseud. Of Lawrence Lariar)

Published by Signet, N.Y., 1952

Condition: Used - Near fine Soft cover

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1st paperback printing, January 1952, so stated. Signet #920, cover by Harry Schaare. Light wear along edges, couple of cover creases, spine edges rubbed, else a very good-near fine copy. Vintage paperback. The second PI Steve Conacher Mystery. "Lawrence Lariar was one the most popular cartoonists of the twentieth century. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, he also crafted a line of lean and mean detective and mystery novels under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France. Lariar now gets his due as a leading artist in hardboiled crime fiction. Courting caf� society, Mary Ray was the queen of New York s priciest escort service. Until private investigator Steve Conacher finds his old friend stabbed to death in her brownstone brothel. All eyes are on her hot-tempered lover, and when he commits suicide in his Greenwich Village studio, it seems the case is closed. But Conacher s not buying the guilt and grief bit. Not when Mary s revealing appointment book has conveniently disappeared. Without it, getting a lead isn t going to be easy, but Conacher does have one beautiful hook: a peach named Joy. The former call girl still has the shakes. And secrets. All he has to do is find her. With Joy s help, Conacher will avenge Mary s death even if it kills him. Considering the high-class lowlives he s dealing with, it just might. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.

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MURDER FOR MADME: Murder in the White Slave Racket

Publisher

Signet, N.Y.

Publication Date

1952

Binding

Pictorial Wrappers

Illustrator

Schaare, Harry

Edition

First Printing.

Condition

Near Fine

Book Type

Vintage Paperback

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