R350.00
Lee Thayer was a hugely prolific writer of detective novels. Her sixty books stretch from The Mystery of the 13th Floor (1919) to Dusty Death (1966), published when she was 92. Despite this output, she is largely forgotten today, and her books seem to have largely disappeared. All but one of Thayer’s novels deals with private detective Peter Clancy and his valet Wiggar. Clancy is based in New York City; his much older partner is retired police Captain O’Malley, and both men frequently work with friendly Lieutenant Kerrigan of the New York police. All of these characters are explicitly Irish, including the red-haired Clancy, and it is not hard to see a resemblance here to the New York City Irish protagonists of Isabel Ostrander’s fiction, which also emerged in the decade of the 1910’s, a few years before Thayer’s.
Price: R350.00
Edition: First edition
Published: 1943
Publishers: Hurst & Blackett Ltd
Condition: Dust jacket in good condition with shelf wear and small tears around the edges – now covered in Plastic sleeve. Cloth hardcover in good condition with minor shelf wear around the edges. Light foxing and tanning on the endpapers, otherwise internally in very good condition – clean and tightly bound.
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Lee Thayer was a hugely prolific writer of detective novels. Her sixty books stretch from The Mystery of the 13th Floor (1919) to Dusty Death (1966), published when she was 92. Despite this output, she is largely forgotten today, and her books seem to have largely disappeared. All but one of Thayer’s novels deals with private detective Peter Clancy and his valet Wiggar. Clancy is based in New York City; his much older partner is retired police Captain O’Malley, and both men frequently work with friendly Lieutenant Kerrigan of the New York police. All of these characters are explicitly Irish, including the red-haired Clancy, and it is not hard to see a resemblance here to the New York City Irish protagonists of Isabel Ostrander’s fiction, which also emerged in the decade of the 1910’s, a few years before Thayer’s.
Price: R350.00
Edition: First edition
Published: 1943
Publishers: Hurst & Blackett Ltd
Condition: Dust jacket in good condition with shelf wear and small tears around the edges – now covered in Plastic sleeve. Cloth hardcover in good condition with minor shelf wear around the edges. Light foxing and tanning on the endpapers, otherwise internally in very good condition – clean and tightly bound.
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| Weight | 300 g |
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