The Tight Corner
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956).
Price: $275.00
Hardcover. First edition. About fine in a very good dustwrapper with chipping at the spine ends. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "Oct 11 – 64. To Max Lamb for all the great times & making L.A. a far far better place to live in – and to Renee With love. What else? Sam Ross." Defeated middleweight boxing champ gets involved with gangsters in the Louisiana bayou. Although Ross's first novel *He Ran All the Way* was filmed, he is best known as a writer for television, writing for various series that included *Mannix*, *The F.B.I.*, *The Fugitive*, *Ben Casey*, *Hawaiian Eye*, and *Rawhide*.
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