Written in 1945, "The Red Right Hand" has come to be considered one of the few genuine classics of the mystery genre to have been produced in America. While the novel contains all the requisite clues and false leads of its sometimes more elegant British counterpart, it also provides a quality rarely available in those more genteel entertainments. That quality is terror, sheer unmitigated terror, the kind that has readers checking to see if all the doors are securely locked. After all, it takes a strong constitution not to ...
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Written in 1945, "The Red Right Hand" has come to be considered one of the few genuine classics of the mystery genre to have been produced in America. While the novel contains all the requisite clues and false leads of its sometimes more elegant British counterpart, it also provides a quality rarely available in those more genteel entertainments. That quality is terror, sheer unmitigated terror, the kind that has readers checking to see if all the doors are securely locked. After all, it takes a strong constitution not to be frightened when a sympathetic, young New York doctor calmly starts to tell you the chilling story of a young couple on their way to be married who pick up an onminous hitchhiker (who may or may not have previously known the husband-to-be). They are involved in a mysterious accident which results in the disappearance of both men without leaving a trace -- except somebody's severed right hand.
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Add this copy of Red Right Hand to cart. $7.27, fair condition, Sold by Solomon's Mine Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Howard, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Simon Schuster Trade.
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Fine. No Jacket. Book 1st printing, thus. Part of the Blue Murder Series editied by Maxim Jakubowski with short introduction. As new Trade size paperback Dr. Harry Riddle's first problem was the whereabouts of the grotesque hitchhiker who had vanished after killing Innis St. Erme. The second was what he did with St. Erme's missing right hand. Riddle's investigation reaches into the very core of madness, but it takes one further, horrific turn when he himself becomes implicated in the serial killer's trail of murders.