Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper

In Raymond Chandler's favourite novel, Mr Bowling buys the newspapers only to find out what the latest is on the murders he's just committed...

About the author

Donald Landels Henderson was born in 1905; he later said, ‘I cannot pretend to have enjoyed anything very much about my childhood or adolescence.’ Henderson was an actor and combined writing with his acting career. He died at only 44, in 1947, just three years after the publication of Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper.

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime novelist whose Lake District Mysteries have been optioned by ITV. Elected to the Detection Club in 2008, he became the first Archivist of the Club, and is also Archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association. Renowned as the leading expert on the history of Golden Age detective fiction, he won the Crimefest Mastermind Quiz three times, and possesses one of Britain’s finest collections of Golden Age novels.

Summary

In Raymond Chandler’s favourite novel, Mr Bowling buys the newspapers only to find out what the latest is on the murders he's just committed…

Product details

• Authors: Donald Henderson
• Assisted by: Martin Edwards (Introduction)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780008333065
• ISBN: 978-0-00-833306-5
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, Historical mysteries, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Satire, Classic crime, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Historical crime & mysteries, Satirical fiction & parodies, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Thriller: serial killers