Good Luck To The Corpse - Max Murray (1951)
Good Luck To The Corpse - Max Murray (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951). Good Luck To The Corpse was Max Murray's sixth mystery novel. Like many of his books, it made its first appearance in print in America, in a hardcover edition published by Farrar, Straus and Young. American paperback editions followed in 1952 (a Dell "mapback") and 1958 (Pyramid). The first UK edition was published in hardcover in 1953 by Michael Joseph. From a 1951 Kirkus Reviews review: "Better as a light novel with touches of murder and blackmail than a mystery tale, as once again Max Murray sets his scene in the glamorous siesta area of the French Riviera. Cast consists of Julian Ashford and his small son, Tyler, Ashford about to set off on another engineering project, and this time proposing to leave Tyler at a school in Nice; the school mistress, attractive youngish Penelope Whitecliffe, and her uncle who was to have Tyler in charge; phony big shot Raoul de Wollfe and his orchidaceous wife, Risa, who turns out to be Julian's missing wife - never divorced; John Keeble, ostensibly playboy, but actually deus ex machina; and a strange character who poses as an innocent, but is actually a spy. Two murders- blackmail- counterfeiting et al, before Risa is exposed not only as a bigamist but a murderer." About the author: MURRAY, MAX(well). 1901-1956. Born in Australia; newspaper reporter in that country, the U.S., and England; scriptwriter and editor for BBC during WWII; author of eleven mystery novels,…
- Series
- Good Luck To The Corpse
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery and detective
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Pulp mystery
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Internet Archive