Clash Of Shadows
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the shadowy underworld where danger lurks behind every corner, Clash of Shadows thrusts its protagonist into a treacherous web of menace, deceit, and desperate survival — a pulse-pounding noir thriller that grips from the very first page. Howard Rigsby masterfully constructs a world of creeping dread, where an imperilled woman finds herself at the centre of a sinister confrontation, hunted by forces that operate just beyond the reach of the light. The tension is relentless, the atmosphere suffocating, and the stakes could not be higher as innocence collides violently with corruption. Rigsby, a skilled craftsman of mid-century crime fiction, brings to bear a taut, cinematic prose style that owes as much to the hardboiled tradition of Raymond Chandler as it does to the psychological suspense of Cornell Woolrich. Clash of Shadows stands as a fine example of the post-war pulp genre at its most visceral — populated by morally complex characters, fog-drenched settings, and a narrative momentum that refuses to let the reader rest. For fans of vintage crime and noir, this is a compelling testament to an era when shadows held very real, very deadly secrets.
Author: Howard Rigsby
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Robert Hale
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the shadowy underworld where danger lurks behind every corner, Clash of Shadows thrusts its protagonist into a treacherous web of menace, deceit, and desperate survival — a pulse-pounding noir thriller that grips from the very first page. Howard Rigsby masterfully constructs a world of creeping dread, where an imperilled woman finds herself at the centre of a sinister confrontation, hunted by forces that operate just beyond the reach of the light. The tension is relentless, the atmosphere suffocating, and the stakes could not be higher as innocence collides violently with corruption. Rigsby, a skilled craftsman of mid-century crime fiction, brings to bear a taut, cinematic prose style that owes as much to the hardboiled tradition of Raymond Chandler as it does to the psychological suspense of Cornell Woolrich. Clash of Shadows stands as a fine example of the post-war pulp genre at its most visceral — populated by morally complex characters, fog-drenched settings, and a narrative momentum that refuses to let the reader rest. For fans of vintage crime and noir, this is a compelling testament to an era when shadows held very real, very deadly secrets.