The ballad of the running man / Shelley Smith.

By: Smith, Shelley, 1912- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, 2019Edition: Large print editionDescription: 360 pages (large print) ; 19 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444841138; 1444841130Subject(s): Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Teachers -- Fiction | Alps -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction | Large type books. Summary: On the Alps, two schoolteachers discover a gruesome sight - the corpse of a murdered man. How the corpse came to be there is the story of Rex Buchanan and his wife Paula. Rex, a pulp fiction author, comes home one day eager to tell Paula about a fantastic plot for his next novel, The ballad of the running man. A man insures his life, and with the aid of his wife pretends to fall ill and eventually 'dies' - but Rex wants them to act it out in real life...
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

On the Alps, two schoolteachers discover a gruesome sight - the corpse of a murdered man. How the corpse came to be there is the story of Rex Buchanan and his wife Paula. Rex, a pulp fiction author, comes home one day eager to tell Paula about a fantastic plot for his next novel, The ballad of the running man. A man insures his life, and with the aid of his wife pretends to fall ill and eventually 'dies' - but Rex wants them to act it out in real life...

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.