No Badge, No Gun: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
by Adams, Harold
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0802733212
- ISBN 13
- 9780802733214
- Seller
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover book in good condition. Pages clean and bright. Spine tight. DJ in fair condition with some small tears on top of spine. DJ with rubbing, wearing, discoloration. Remnant of a price sticker inside back cover. Harold Adams's series of mysteries about small-town South Dakota during the Great Depression are like the work of another great artist of that period--the photographer Walker Evans, who captured in black and white every grain and pore of the façades and faces he saw.Carl Wilcox--the rebellious son of a hotel owner who makes his living as a sign painter and occasional detective--is Adams's camera, recording in sharp, spare, and often pungent language the misdeeds of his fellows.This time, Wilcox is finishing up a painting job in the town of Jonesville when the local pastor offers him $100 to find the man who raped and strangled his young niece. A frustrated bible teacher and a slick traveling salesman are the likely suspects, but the police have no evidence against either. In his comfortably offhand way, Wilcox sits and talks with all sorts of people, soaking up impressions and possible leads with apparently aimless ease. He also finds time to pursue another of his interests--romancing attractive and available women, in this case the town librarian, another character so quickly brought to life by Adams that you'll swear you've seen her picture in an old album. 1998. A5.
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- Bookseller
- Better Bindings (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 323
- Title
- No Badge, No Gun: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
- Author
- Adams, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0802733212
- ISBN 13
- 9780802733214
- Publisher
- Walker & Co
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 202
- Size
- 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
- Keywords
- Fiction
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- Rubbing
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