The Detective (Apparent First Edition/Apparent First Print/Stated BCE - F/VF with G-/G+ DJ) [*This novel inspired the 1968 movie of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra and Lee Remick]

by Roderick Thorp (1936-1999)

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Dial, New York NY (1966) HC w/ DJ, Apparent First Edition/Apparent First Print/Stated BCE (Copyright page notes Copyright date of 1966 and Library of Congress catalog card number: 66-11630), 8vo, 598 pages; Book: F/VF, clean, tight and sound, near as new, appears a once read or an unread, nothing derogatory of note, red boards and spine, white lettering to spine; Pages: F/VF, clean, white and secure, nothing derogatory of note, fancy yellow colored top edges, fancy deckled fore-edges; DJ: G-/G+, moisture stain to front approximately 3-1/2"x1", does not affect front board of book, tip bump to all four, edge wear all around, five fingernail tears approximately 1/8" to front top edge, two fingernail tears approximately 1/8" to back top edge, one fingernail tear approximately 1/16th" to front bottom edge, 3 fingernail tears approximately 1/16" and one fingernail tear approximately 1/4" to back bottom edge, one fingernail tear to bottom edge of spine approximately 1/8" and one chip to bottom edge of spine approximately 1/8"x3/4", not clipped (a book club ed.not a remainder/not a Library ed.). Synopsis: This is the novel that inspired the 1968 blockbuster movie by the same name, staring: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, and Ralph Meeker; Sinatra considered one of but two of his best works in a motion picture, and was a personal favorite of his. The story is about a man who is a private detective. At the end of WW2, Joe Leland, a celebrated ace in the European air war, comes home to resume his career with the police department in a northeastern city in the US. The qualities of intelligence, seriousness, and leadership that brought him distinction in the war gain him executive rank, second-in-command of detectives in the touchiest and busiest precinct downtown, and his success reaches a peak when he achieves a daring solution to a puzzling and brutal homosexual murder. At the same time his personal life collapses and he is forced to make decisions that only a few years before had been unthinkable for him. Leland quits his job and moves to another city where he attempts to rebuild his life. As the head of a private detective agency that bears his name, he accepts a client, a young woman, whose husband's recent death has been adjudged suicide. The events surrounding the man's death are suspicious --- the young woman believes her husband might have been murdered. In the investigation of this extraordinarily complex problem -- an investigation of the mysteries of character as much as an investigation of events -- Leland discovers the past in the present and experiences a violent fusion of his professional and personal fortunes. What he does and how this affects his life, the lives of the people close to him, snd the lives of people at every level in the community comprises the stunning climax of this bold, intricate, and continuously fascinating book. Reviews when this book was released proclaimed, "Not since Raymond Chandler has a writer so brilliantly taken possession of the American detective novel." And, "The Detective constitutes the first serious claim in the past twenty years for the private detective story as literature."