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B As in Banshee - Lawrence Treat
1940 American hardcover first edition, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York A VG+ book in unclipped ($2.00) dustwrapper Small neat previous owner bookplate to pastedown, no other names etc The jacket shallow chips to edges and closed tear, still clean and bright Attractive period artwork and a nice thick format book, not released in England Carl Wayward became deputy sheriff of Murmur Lake as a joke. His first job was to dispossess a man who owed $48.00. Carl gave him the money instead. But the second ease was less easily disposed of An uncommon book in jacket and a bargain
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CARL, asking questions about Riggman, kept encountering a wall of hostility. As far as he could gather, people had two things against Riggman. He was brusque and he was rich. He approached people too directly, told them uncomfortable truths with a malicious enjoyment, and he was land-hungry. Hardly a person on the lake who had not received an offer from Riggman, and there was a tacit agreement that, if any property owner should ever have to sell, he would consult a committee headed by Ira before disposing of land to an outsider who might be merely an agent for Riggman. Carl wondered what lay behind this land-hunger. He was told Riggman wanted to own so that he would be surrounded by tenants instead of neighbors, so that he could force himself on them with the overwhelming power of his wealth. Riggman arrived on the lake the twentieth of June and left almost immediately for a few days. Carl happened to be on the road and glimpsed a dark plump man hunched over the wheel of a big gray Minerva. He drove it with skill and with concentration. Next to him sat an old man half asleep, |
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