Headed for a Hearse

Headed for a Hearse
Jonathan Latimer, William DeAndrea
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Paperback
h203 x 133mm - 264pg
1 Feb 2022 US
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9781613162811
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Robert Westland' s date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wife' s grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who' s as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago' s most brutal criminal element. Crane' s got just six days to suss out the real killer-he sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters, aided by a lime squeezer, a quart of whiskey, a monkey wrench, a taxicab, a stopwatch, and a deep sea diver but in 1930s Chicago, everyone' s got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it' s too late. Chicago crime beat journalist-turned-novelist Jonathan Latimer blends hardboiled detective fiction with a shot of screwball comedy in the fast-moving, realistic 1935 baffler Headed for a Hearse, an exciting combination of the macabre and the humorous. Includes discussion guide questions for use in book clubs.
"Jonathan Latimer is the best kept secret in noir fiction. " -- Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition
Jonathan Latimer (1906-1983) was a bestselling author and screenwriter. Born in Chicago, he began his career as a crime reporter for the Herald Examiner, working there until 1935, when he set out on a twisting road to Hollywood, which included stints as a dude rancher, a stunt man, and a publicist. In the late 1930s he began writing screenplays for MGM, producing the scripts for several classic noir films, including The Big Clock (1948) and the adaptation of Dashiell Hammett' s The Glass Key (1942), which starred Alan Ladd. All the while, Latimer was writing fast-paced mystery novels such as The Lady in the Morgue (1936) and The Dead Don' t Care (1938). After fighting in World War II, he returned to Hollywood, where he continued writing novels and became a staff writer for the Perry Mason show.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781613162811
Published: 1 Feb 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Penzler Publishers
Publisher: Penzler Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 133mm
Pages: 264

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