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Death in the fifth position
- Title
- Death in the fifth position / Edgar Box.
- Author
- Box, Edgar, 1925-2012.
- Publication
- London : Harborough Pub., 1960.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Vidal D43 1960 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.
- Description
- 139 p.; 18 cm.
- Summary
- A New York show-business public relations agent, hired to end pickets against a touring Russian ballet company whose American choreographer is an accused Communist Party member, solves a ballerina's murder.
- Series Statement
- Ace books ; no. H375
- Uniform Title
- Ace books ; no. H375.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Noir fiction.
- Pulp fiction.
- Printed wrappers.
- Paperbacks.
- Note
- Edgar Box was one of three pseudonyms used by novelist Gore Vidal. He published two other novels as Edgar Box: Death Before Bedtime (1953) and Death Likes It Hot (1954).
- "Bound edition first published in England in 1954 by William Heinemann Limited, London, W.1 / First Ace Books edition 1960"--From t.p. verso.
- "Ace Books" black spade logo on front cover. The British Ace Books, an imprint of the Harborough Publishing Co. Ltd., was unrelated to the American paperback publisher of the same name.
- Chapter 7, section 1 features a scene set in a Greenwich Village gay/transvestite bar.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Binding (note)
- Paperback, with color printed illustration on front cover depicting murdered young woman in negligee, revealingly posed, and with line drawing of man with automatic pistol standing over her.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll Vidal D43 1960
- OCLC
- 656155816
- Author
- Box, Edgar, 1925-2012.
- Title
- Death in the fifth position / Edgar Box.
- Imprint
- London : Harborough Pub., 1960.
- Series
- Ace books ; no. H375Ace books ; no. H375.
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission from holding division.
- Binding
- Paperback, with color printed illustration on front cover depicting murdered young woman in negligee, revealingly posed, and with line drawing of man with automatic pistol standing over her.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012. Author
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll Vidal D43 1960