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Author Grafton, C. W. (Cornelius Warren), 1909-1982, author.

Title The rat began to gnaw the rope / C. W. Grafton ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Leslie S. Klinger.

Publication Info. Naperville, IL : Poisoned Pen Press, [2020]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  M GRAFTON, C.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F GRAFTON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Mystery  MYS-GRAFTON    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  M GRAFTON, C.W.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MYS GRAFTON    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 280 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Library of Congress crime classics
Library of Congress crime classics.
Note "The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope was first published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1943. A notation in the Library of Congress's first edition copy states it is a 'war edition,' meaning the novel's complete text appears at reduced size to comply with paper conservation orders of the War Production Board during World War II."--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope follows Gil Henry, a Kentucky lawyer who begins investigating a stock fraud and winds up investigating a murder. When Ruth McClure approaches Gil and asks him to investigate the stock she inherited from her father, he reluctantly agrees, never expecting to be embroiled in scandal, subterfuge, and murder. But the more he digs the deeper the manipulation scheme goes, and it becomes unclear whether Gil will find a way out. In this portrait of pre-WWII America, this exceptional mystery combines fast-paced plotting and a breezy writing style with C.W. Grafton's thorough knowledge of the law. Grafton was also one of the first to add humor to the hard-boiled style of Hammett and Chandler."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Securities fraud -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Kentucky -- Fiction.
Kentucky -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01029788
Securities fraud. (OCoLC)fst01110802
Kentucky. (OCoLC)fst01204494
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1933-1945
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Legal fiction (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01921711
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)
Added Author Klinger, Leslie S., editor, writer of introduction, writer of supplementary textual content.
ISBN 9781464212987 (paperback)
1464212988 (paperback)
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