Slippery Hitch
.jpg) Cover artwork of Jarrolds Publishing's 1948 British hardcover edition. | |
| Author | Gerald Butler |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime, thriller |
| Set in | London |
| Publisher | Jarrolds |
Publication date | 27 May 1948 |
| Media type | |
| OCLC | 10534256 |
Slippery Hitch is a 1946-written but 1948-published crime thriller novel by English writer Gerald Butler.[1] [2] Published by Jarrolds Publishing on 27 May 1948,[3] it was Butler's fifth novel and is written in the noirish hardboiled style of the era. American editions were published by Rinehart & Company (hardcover, 1949) and Dell Publishing (paperback, 1951).
Due to the success of his earlier novels, the film rights were optioned by Hollywood film production company Warner Brothers Pictures in December 1946, before the novel was published, though no film was ultimately produced.[4]
Publication history[edit]
- 27 May 1948 Jarrolds Publishing, UK, hardcover edition[3]
- 12 April 1949 Rinehart & Company, US, hardcover edition[5]
- 1951 Dell Publishing, US, paperback edition (catalog Dell 511)
References[edit]
- ^ Hubin p.59
- ^ Bordwell p.514
- ^ a b University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "Slippery hitch". Copyright Renewals - Spotlight at Stanford. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Newspaper World, Issues 2556-2579. Newspaper world, 1947. p.100
- ^ United States Copyright Office (1946). 1946-1954 Copyright Registration Cards (A-N).
- Bordwell, David. Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Hubin, Allen J. 1981-1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction, 1749-1980. Garland Pub., 1988.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
External links[edit]
- Slippery Hitch at the Internet Archive
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