The Last Enemy

by Berton Roueché

Fine in Very Good jacket, No damage to book, DJ has very slight shelfware mostly on the back. 5 3/4 By 8 1/4`` Originally published as Dell paperback in 1956, this is the first hardback publication in the U.S. 1975. FASCINATING, HARROWING STORY OF MURDER AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1975

About the author

Berton Roueché was a medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He also wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), The Incurable Wound (1958), Feral (1974), and The Medical Detectives (1980). An article he wrote for The New Yorker was made into the 1956 film Bigger Than Life, and many of the medical mysteries on the television show House were inspired by Roueché's writings.

Reviews

[Paul Barnes · Rating 4 out of 5]

[Victor Gollancz Ltd] (1956). HB/DJ. 1/1. Publisher’s Archive Copy. 240 Pages. Purchased from Any Amount of Books.

A jumble of vividly drawn, strange misfits who stumble through life and death.

I wish that Rex Corn had featured more; he’s a most intriguing villain.

The ending was abrupt and slightly disappointing.

The typically sparse Gollancz wrapper briefly quotes from eight reviews. Oddly enough, the first five contain the word “fascinating” - three being confined to it with a ‘more verbose’ entry prefixing “entirely”.