Author Goldsmith drew on his youth hitchhiking across America in this legendary account of a continental trek gone wrong. Alex Roth is a musician who thumbs it out for L.A. and the woman of his dreams. Things hit a snag when a bookmaking driver Alex flags down suddenly ends up dead. With its tight, crisp writing comparable to James M. Cain and Chandler, the work translated perfectly on screen into the legendary noir Detour, perhaps the greatest low-budget film ever made.
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Author Goldsmith drew on his youth hitchhiking across America in this legendary account of a continental trek gone wrong. Alex Roth is a musician who thumbs it out for L.A. and the woman of his dreams. Things hit a snag when a bookmaking driver Alex flags down suddenly ends up dead. With its tight, crisp writing comparable to James M. Cain and Chandler, the work translated perfectly on screen into the legendary noir Detour, perhaps the greatest low-budget film ever made.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Reprint of first British paperback edition. (60th thousand) Likely issued in the early 1940's. Very good+ copy in french folded wrappers. (1 1/2"-inch rear at head of rear cover, with small chip. Tiny chip & couple short edge tears at head of front cover. Traces of light shelfsoiling to covers) Dennis Wheatley blurb on front cover-"It's a tough story, yet it has a real-life ring." Stunning cover art depicting a beaming femme fatale. Basis for the classic 1945 film noir directed by Edgar Ulmer. (B)
