{"product_id":"to-2026-084","title":"The Man Who Was Murdered Twice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLEITFRED, Robert H. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Man Who Was Murdered Twice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. New York: Green Circle Books, 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctavo. 255 pp. Red cloth in the publisher's color-illustrated dust jacket. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe book belongs to the broader 1930s San Francisco crime tradition associated with Dashiell Hammett and his contemporaries — writers who turned the working geography of the city into genre material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Depression-era San Francisco crime novel, here in its scarce original color-illustrated dust jacket. Ned Anderson, a wealthy young San Francisco playboy, returns from a round-the-world trip to find that his attorney has swindled him out of his fortune and that the attorney's secretary has been kidnapped; Anderson hires the private detective Simon Crole, and the case turns on a victim who meets the same fate twice over. It is hardboiled San Francisco crime in the staccato manner of its decade, written in the years when the pulp magazines were feeding a generation of writers into hardback genre fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreen Circle Books was a small Depression-era hardback house, and copies of its titles in the original jackets are uncommon; \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Was Murdered Twice\u003c\/em\u003e in jacket is among the less frequently encountered. The novel is not recorded in Baird and Greenwood's standard bibliography of California fiction.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-084\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leitfred, Robert H.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459953316001,"sku":"TO-2026-084","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-084_01.jpg?v=1783397054","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-084","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}