Limited edition, # 68 of 300 copies. 255 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4. Blue cloth covered boards stamped red on spine. Light blue dj. Signed & numbered by the author.Laid in: carbon typescript one story in the book. Very minor edgewear. No other markings.

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Title: Man Who Hated Banks, The: And Other Stories
Publisher: Crippen & Landru, Norfolk, VA
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1885941161
ISBN 13: 9781885941169
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st ed.
Condition: Very Good
Signed: author

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Gilbert, Michael, Man Who Hated Banks, The: And Other Stories

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Readers familiar with Gilbert's matchless spy stories (Game Without Rules, 1967, etc.) will be especially grateful to have these 18 previously uncollected stories from 1948 through 1979. The short-shorts (featuring either Chief Inspector Hazlerigg or the solicitor Bohun) are notable for the ingenuity and variety of their riddles (how could a wanted man disappear from a deserted street? which of three men gave the fellow train-traveler in their compartment a fatal heart attack, and how?); the mid-length stories, especially a cycle of three linked tales featuring brutish, fallen Chief Inspector Mercer, are striking examples of Gilbert's wit and compression; and the title story, which sets Inspector Patrick Petrella against a man who robs banks to work off a grudge, is flavorsome and eventful enough to serve a less polished professional for a full-length novel. Pure pleasure--and a particular treat for readers who've been following Gilbert for any substantial fraction of the last 50 years. -- Copyright �1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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