By Gavin Lambert

New York: Grossman Publishers/A Division of Viking Press, 1976.

First American edition, first printing.

"Published in 1976 by Grossman Publishers" statement to the copyright page.

Lambert looks at dangerous events and edgy reactions that occurred in the lives of nine authors of superior suspense, and compares the causes, similarities, obsessions, repressions, spawned creative energy, and more.

The authors investigated are Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Chandler, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Georges Simenon, and John Buchan.

Fine, tight and fresh in fuchsia linen with metallic-green embossed titles to the spine, black-and-white headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $7.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 272 pages; bibliography.

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