Selling id: marstonsb2,
Rated by buyers 4.8
State: mint
How soon does it ship: Usually ships in 1-2 business days;
From: TX, United States
Remarks: Fine 12mo. xx, 124pp. Pictorial card covers. Cover price 3.95. 1st printing of the Black Lizard mass market paperback which reprints the 1958 Fawcett Gold Medal paperback original edition with a long essay by Whittington, 'I Remember it Well', which covers his long writing career in the pulps and paperbacks with comments on 'Web of Murder'. ''' ''' He set the trap for murder-but it was the girl he loved who got caught in it! '''-front cover. '''Harry Whittington was the king of the paperback originals. He wrote mysteries, westerns, romance and adventure novels. Despite his prolific output, Whittington's work was always of the highest quality. Celebrated and perhaps appreciated most in France, Whittington was lionized by the 'Magazine Literaire', in Paris: 'We in France have considered Harry Whittington one of the masters of the roman noir in the second generation-after Hammet, Chandler, and Cain. '''-back cover. Blurb by Bill Pronzini, Anthony Boucher. Black Lizard, a publisher during
