A reissue of the classic crime novel by Martin M. Goldsmith which served as the basis of the 1945 film noir masterpiece by Edgar G. Ulmer. A dark tale of a New York jazz musician who, while hitchhiking West, assumes the identity of a dead man and meets a scheming woman intent on blackmail. The novel has a new foreward by the editors of O'Bryan House Publishers

Detour

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Martin M. Goldsmith

Mystery

O'Bryan House Publishers LLC

Is it possible in this day of enlightened justice for a man to be punished twice for the same crime? Double Jeopardy answers this question, at the same time uncovering the greatest of many loopholes in our modern jurisprudence. In this very human but striking novel are portrayed the calamities that can be visited upon any ordinary citizen by the cold dispassionate judgement of our courts and our unimaginative and often stupid juries. Through the eyes of the victim, Peter Thatcher, this tense revelation unfolds, growing to ugly and utterly ridiculous proportions. "Peter Thatcher has murdered his wife," people said. "I heard them quarreling," announced one. "And I," added another, "saw the blood." To make matters worse, Thatcher himself could not be quite sure of his own innocence! Not a problem novel, not a mystery novel, but rather a cross between the two, this thrilling story will always be appreciated by those who read "The Postman Always Rings Twice."

Double Jeopardy

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Black Mask

Author Goldsmith drew on his youth hitchhiking across America in this legendary account of a continental trek gone wrong. Alex Roth is a musician who thumbs it out for L.A. and the woman of his dreams. Things hit a snag when a bookmaking driver Alex flags down suddenly ends up dead. With its tight, crisp writing comparable to James M. Cain and Chandler, the work translated perfectly on screen into the legendary noir "Detour," perhaps the greatest low-budget film ever made.

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Detour

Double Jeopardy

Detour