Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith - Couverture souple

Reeves, Robert

 
9781618274717: Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1618274716 ISBN 13 : 9781618274717
Editeur : Black Mask, 2020

Synopsis

Long considered one of the best of the Black Mask authors, author Robert Reeves’s longest-running detective character actually first appeared in the 1939 novel, Dead and Done For. Cellini Smith, accountant for a New York City pinball gangster, must clear his boss’s name after being accused of murder. Featuring an introduction by Black Mask editor Kenneth S. White, and a cover illustration by the great Rafael de Soto.“The three men stepped out of the elevator and walked down the corridor. The thick maroon carpet absorbed their foot-falls. They stopped at the fifth floor. The man with the soft fingers drew out a thirty-eight. He was no longer nervous. The man with the pleasant voice pulled a shotgun from under his topcoat. Then the big man flung the door wide open. There was a body sprawled over the floor of the living-room. Someone had been there before them….“And to Tony, the wise-guy, the big-shot, who had a beautiful alibi for the time when he walked into that room but had none at all for earlier in the day, was a cinch for the cops. To whom could he turn? Only Cellini. A scholar and athlete, he was nevertheless a gangster’s employee. He know his way around. Tony got his money’s worth out of him. By the time Cellini got through, there were other corpses….”

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Éditeur
Black Mask
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1618274716
ISBN 13 
9781618274717
Reliure
Broché
Illustrateur
DeSoto Rafael
Nombre de pages
239
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