Today I picked up a battered old Signet paperback of Bill S.
Ballinger's THE LONGEST SECOND (1957). The back cover
says:
| When he woke up, he couldn't remember who he was. When he
tried to
| talk, he discovered his throat had been cut.
What's the word on Ballinger? There's a introductory good web
page on him here:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ballinge.htm
which says:
| In the beginning of his career, Ballinger published
hard-boiled
| detective fiction. His first novel, THE BODY IN THE BED,
appeared in
| 1948 and introduced private eye Barr Breed from Chicago, a
typical tough
| hero of the post-war fiction. The story was more or less a
variation of
| THE MALTESE FALCON.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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