V As In Victim
$59.16
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
“So Mitch knew in general why he was a cop…But Jub Freeman was different, and the difference bothered Mitch.”
Originally published in 1945, V as in Victim was the first crime novel to feature ordinary cops as the main characters, launching the subgenre known as “police procedurals” and earning Lawrence Treat an important place in the history of mysteries.
“So Mitch knew in general why he was a cop. …But Jub Freeman was different, and the difference bothered Mitch.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781464225376 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1464225370 |
| Author: | Lawrence Treat |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Library of Congress Crime Classics |
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Critics Review
“Treat’s laconic style clearly foreshadows Ed McBain’s wonderful 87th Precinct series.”–New York Times
About The Author
Lawrence Treat
LESLIE S. KLINGER is the two-time Edgar winning editor of New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s. He has also edited two anthologies of classic mysteries and, with Laurie R. King, five anthologies of stories inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon. Klinger is the series editor of Library of Congress Crime Classics, a partnership of the Library of Congress and Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. He is a former Chapter President of the SoCal Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and lives in Malibu, California.
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