Twenty Plus Two

by Frank Gruber

First edition bound in light gray boards.INSCRIBED by GRUBER on the front fly. Book is VG, has some dust soling to the top edge of the front boards & the spine. . Hinges tight, text clean. . DJ has small rub spots to the spine tips, not price clipped. Decent signed copy.

189 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1961

About the author

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Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.

Reviews

[Lynda · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite mysteries. It is a classic detective-centered mystery involving murder, a missing heiress, and invincible integrity. Frank Gruber was best known as a western writer, but this book had perfect voice in the mystery noir genre.