Product Description
Defeated middleweight boxing champ gets involved with gangsters in the Louisiana bayou. Although Ross's first novel *He Ran All the Way* was filmed, he is best known as a writer for television, writing for various series that included *Mannix*, *The F.B.I.*, *The Fugitive*, *Ben Casey*, *Hawaiian Eye*, and *Rawhide*
This is the UK first edition, 1957, published by Boardman Books, London ( a crime/noir/thriller publisher who published much of the best US crime writing of the 1940's and 1950's This was number 158 in their ongoing @American Bloodhound' series. A publisher's bookmark ( with details of other titles ) is loosely laid in.
Photographic cover, with bright yeloow, pink and black colour palette. Light edgewear to the covers, esp at corners. Not ex library. Now in a clear plastic jacket protector.