Ben Jardinn, a private detective, investigates the murder of Hans Reiner, a famous symphony conductor, during a concert at the Hollywood Bowl

Death in a Bowl (A Quill Mysterious Classic)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Whitfield, Raoul

Mystery

William Morrow & Co.

Millionaire gambler Eric Vennel's yacht, "Virgin," sets sail for the Regatta at Poughkeepsie with an oddball assortment of uneasy companions-hardheaded sportswriter Al Conners; beautiful actress Carla Sand; her rival gossip columnist Rita Veld, oversized brute Mick O'Rourke and a large sampling of East and West-Coast society. Rumors of Vennel's extensive wagering on the Regatta, and a midnight attack, raise the tension to the point of murder.

The Virgin Kills (A Quill Mysterious Classic)

Quill (Harper)

1st No Exit Press 1988 edition hardcover book. Fine condition book &amp; vg++ dw. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Green Ice

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

No Exit

1988, British trade paperback edition (this suspense novel was first published in 1931), No Exit Press, Herts., U.K., 239 pages.

Death in a bowl

No Exit Press

Whitfield's first novel, and the one critics like best (Hammett loved it, but, then, Whitfield and Hammett were drinking buddies.) The story begins with Mal Ourney's release from a two-year prison sentence. While in prison Ourney apparently develops sympathy for the small-time crooks he meets, and hatches a plan to get the big guys when he gets out. Rumors of this spread outside the prison walls and he is a target for a frame-up within hours of his release.

Disruptive Pub

The Virgin Kills

The only novel to feature Ben Jardinn, a two-fisted, hard-drinking PI with an office just a couple of blocks from Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Hardly a cat-and-goldfish story, Death in a Bowl is about a murder that takes place in the Hollywood Bowl during a concert, with a lot of action and some surprising twists at the end.

Death In A Bowl

PHANTOM BULLETS “Two Snipers fight a grim duel to a dramatic climax” RAW MEAT “The Germans were breaking through, and the only thing to stop them was the army of green Yankee troops. But the Yanks were ready, eager —particularly those three strange buddies in Company M.” STAND FAST - CONTEMPTIBLES! “The Old Contemptibles, Britain’s most famous army, was the outfit that Dan Moran adopted when the Hun was warm with the first flush of victory, his gloating eyes on Paris.”

High Adventure #138

Empey, Arthur Guy

Gunnison,John P.

Hughes, James Perley

Cruickshank, Harold F.

Genre Fiction

Adventure House

In the February 1930 issue of Black Mask Magazine a new character was introduced to the American detective story. Jo Gar is both a classic "thinking" sleuth and a tough man of action who inhabits the exotic noir world of the Philippines between the two World Wars. Jo Gar faces a rogue's gallery of colorful villains from mixed-race Chinese to high society American exiles. In these Jo Gar stories, Whitfield creates a vivid world where typhoons threaten the harbor, criminals escape from the local prison, and the waterfront is home to cutthroats from all countries. Manila's great international seaport is home to luxury liner travelers of all classes from all around Asia, and the world. This new, expanded edition of the long out of print, very collectable 2002 anthology, contains every word written about Jo Gar, and presents every story, novella, and novel. It includes two legendary Nagasaki novelettes not seen since 1930 as well as the only Jo Gar novel, The Rainbow Murders, complete and unabridged! Edited by the Black Mask Library Series General Editor, Keith Alan Deutsch, this new volume includes two important, critical, biographical essays about Whitfield and Jo Gar by Black Mask scholar E.R. Hagemann, and a portrait of Professor Hagemann by his colleague, Dr. R.H. Miller. The new book is richly illustrated with line drawings by the greatest dry brush illustrator of the pulp age, Arthur Rodman Bowker. All these extras, and now at a new, low, popular price, too! Another volume in the Black Mask Library.

West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar

Altus Press

The greatest detective magazine of all time is back for another collection of the best in hard-boiled fiction. Featuring classic material from the vaults of Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and other high-quality pulp magazines. And this issue is headlined by an all-new story, “Bucketful of Bullets,” by award-winning author Paul Bishop.

Black Mask: Fall 2016

Bishop, Paul

Nebel, Frederick

Sale, Richard

Constiner, Merle

Daly, Carroll John

Davis, Norbert

Flynn, T.T.

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Death in a Bowl (A Quill Mysterious Classic)

The Virgin Kills (A Quill Mysterious Classic)

Green Ice

Death in a bowl

Green Ice

The Virgin Kills

Death In A Bowl

High Adventure #138

West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar

Black Mask: Fall 2016