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This is a very good hardcover. 1961 Walter Black Publishing. This copy is very good inside and out. The inside pages are very good and clean. The binding is tight and straight with fine sewn (not modern glued) binding. Grey hardcover boards are also very good with only a hint of shelf wear and feature gold lettering along spine in black block. Crown octavo book size or 5" x 8" with 135 pages. ESG design endpapers front and back. This copy contains the original Walter Black pamphlet.
This is Shills Can't Cash Chips & Bedrooms Have Windows, two detective crime fiction mystery novels in one edition. They were written by Erle Stanley Gardner, often published under his pseudonym A.A. Fair. This is the Walter J. Black, 1961 edition. Walter Black published a series of two-story volumes. These classic hardcovers collect his popular Cool and Lam detective series featuring the mismatched private eye duo Bertha Cool and Donald Lam.
Shills Can't Cash Chips, published in 1961, is an adventure involving an insurance investigation into a car accident that quickly spirals into murder. Donald Lam poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang and ends up hip-deep in danger.
Bedrooms Have Windows, published in 1949, follows a routine assignment tailing a hustler that leads Donald Lam to a sleazy hotel room with two corpses. Framed as the cops' prime suspect, he has to outmaneuver the law and the real killer
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