The Exploits of the Patent Leather Kid Randall No dust jacket

No dust jacket

Just as we have collected many of Hoch’s favorite and cleverest tales

promoting hardboiled private eye novels and spy fiction

News that Palmer (1905–1968) probably left enough uncollected stories for a future volume will excite fans of literate

Mead (The House at Devil’s Neck) and Pandian (The Library Game) exalt the puzzle-based mystery with this stellar anthology of 14 original short stories

The Exploits of the Patent Leather Kid Randall No dust jacketA Closer Look at Erle Stanley Gardner Short Stories in The Exploits of the Patent Leather Kid The Patent Leather Kid is an elegant crook, hiding his identity with mask, gloves, and shoes made out of black patent leather. In truth, he is a wealthy, seemingly indolent socialite, who becomes a terror to the underworld. In the gang ridden world of the Depression, The Kid knows that the rulers of today were the corpses of tomorrow, where survival was the