The Dead Beat
New York: Inner Sanctum? Simon & Schuster, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 152 pp. Generally fine but with foxing to the endpapers, in original dust jacket, rather faulted with some soiling mainly to the rear panel, closed tear lower front panel. Walter and Elinor Harris, returning from the Sunset Club, found an unconscious, good-looking, clean cut young man on the back seat of their car with blood on his face. They put him to bed in their guest room and when he twisted his ankle on the stairs next morning, invite him to stay with them until he gets better. Larry Fox was fable, pleasant, even charming, and the Harrises thought they knew himwell. But they didn't know him at all. Near Fine / good. Item #E34090
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