Stranger at Home: A George Sanders Mystery

Author:   George Sanders
Publisher:   Dean Street Press
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9781911095835


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   02 March 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Stranger at Home: A George Sanders Mystery


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Four years. That's how long it took Californian playboy Michael Vickers to regain his memory and come home. Four years. That's how long Vickers spent battered, bruised and south of the border, following the attack which sought to end his life - all because he'd mistaken a mortal enemy for a friend. Or a lover. And now Vickers is looking for four years' worth of payback from the devil responsible for his near-demise. But within days of Vickers' return, a murder attempt is made on one of his suspects - and this time it succeeds. Enter a very shrewd detective, whose eyes are on everyone. Especially Vickers. In Stranger at Home, the second George Sanders mystery novel, we are taken to a world removed from the backstage comic mystery of Crime on My Hands, but nonetheless a milieu very familiar to the actor - Southern California in the 1940's. A world of stars and millionaires, but also vice, organized crime and shattered dreams. And Michael Vickers himself is a hero very much after the mould of Sanders' irresistibly attractive screen persona - gilded and charming, languid and pleasure-seeking... but with a steely, remorseless core.

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Author:   George Sanders
Publisher:   Dean Street Press
Imprint:   Dean Street Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.236kg
ISBN:  

9781911095835


ISBN 10:   1911095838
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   02 March 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"""The characters are hard-boiled, the language colorful and the solution elusive."" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch ""A first class whodunit of the tough school."" - Richmond Times-Dispatch ""The characters are varied and intriguing, the tale moves along at a gallop and the style is crisp and effective."" - Columbus Dispatch"


The characters are hard-boiled, the language colorful and the solution elusive. - St. Louis Post-Dispatch A first class whodunit of the tough school. - Richmond Times-Dispatch The characters are varied and intriguing, the tale moves along at a gallop and the style is crisp and effective. - Columbus Dispatch


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George Sanders was born in St Petersburg in 1906. He left Russia in 1917 with his family, who settled in England and had George educated at Bedales and Brighton College. He made his British film debut in 1929, but it was in 1930's Hollywood that he honed his distinctive, charming-yet-dangerous screen persona - the quintessential cad. Sanders co-starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent (both 1940), and went on to win an Academy Award for his signature role, that of Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950). He continued to work in films up until the year of his death in 1972. In the 1940's, Sanders' film-star status was the impetus for his two crime novels, both featuring recognizably Sanders-esque heroes: Crime on My Hands (1944) and Stranger at Home (1946). In 1960 came a third book: his autobiography, fittingly titled Memoirs of A Professional Cad, in which the line between fiction and fact is blurred even more convincingly - and wittily - than in the novels.

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