W L Heath

	Violent Saturday - W.L. Heath 1955 UK hardcover first edition, first imperssion published by Hamish Hamilton in London A VG+ book in VG+ unclipped dust jacket The are no names or stamps in the book, clean and tidy A solid book The wrapper is clean and bright, light edge rubs, superb artwork by CW Bacon What this Book is About W.L. Heath's first novel is at once a wildly exciting adventure story and a penetrating portrait of the life of a small town. You will remember the people of Morgan and its violent Saturday afternoon for a long time after you have closed the pages of this book. Basis for the hard boiled film, directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Sidney Boehm starring Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine A lovely copy of an important book, scarce in jacket For Sale at £SOLD - SORRY, CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK (approx $SOLD) - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
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Synopsis of the Hard-Boiled Classic Violent Saturday IN a town as small as Morgan, Alabama, no stranger went unnoticed, and several people saw the three men who got off the train that Friday afternoon. They weren't much to look at and seemed somehow out of place, but the citizens of Morgan buried a doubtful twinge or two and went about their business. Shelley Martin planned a fishing trip for Saturday and relaxed with his wife and children. The Fairchilds drank too much at a party, and when Emily vanished Boyd wondered where and with whom she had gone. Miss Elsie Cotter wept for a rosy ancestral past. Harry Reeves, prim behind his bank desk in daytime, slouched in a back alley at night disguised by a shiny baseball cap. And in the Commerce Hotel, Sugarfoot, the Negro bellhop, nursed his whisky bottle, pondered over the three odd men in the room upstairs, and looked in their suit-cases when they were out to dinner to find a large and lethal shotgun buried amid the dirty shirts. The three strangers had come to Morgan to rob the bank. While the town's citizens spent the night in their accustomed fashions, some placidly, some passionately and some in acute distress, the three men plotted their attack. Saturday dawned stormy, cancelling fishing trips, accentuating hangovers, changing some plans, but not that of the three strange men. And at three in the afternoon the sleepy town exploded into violence that shattered the patterns of several lives and shook up many others, leaving one man shocked to numbness by the look of death, and a hero appalled by the nature of his heroism.

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