{"product_id":"the-24th-horse-paperback","title":"The 24th Horse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHugh Pentecost\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as \u003ci\u003eCancelled in Red\u003c\/i\u003e took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racket, so this mystery tangles Bradley up in the fast tanbark crowd.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 24th Horse\u003c\/i\u003e gallops after a host of hard-faced people, some of them with more money than is good for them - and others, unfortunately, with far too little.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the minute Johnny Curtin drives a coup  with the body of a murdered girl in the rumble seat to Inspector Bradley's door, this novel keeps moving - fast  \u003ci\u003eThe 24th Horse\u003c\/i\u003e is a tense, absorbing mystery novel that will hold the reader to the final page as Bradley sets a trap for a desperate killer - and finds himself face to face with death \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudson Philips, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award winner, was born in Northfield, Mass. in 1903. He began his writing career in the pulp fiction magazines in 1924, while earning his journalism degree from Columbia University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1939 he won the $10,000 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest, using the pen name Hugh Pentecost, for \u003ci\u003eCancelled in Red\u003c\/i\u003e. This marked a turning point in his career, as he created a second body of work for slick magazines and paperbacks as Pentecost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe continued using both names simultaneously, living in New York and later Connecticut, producing more than 500 works. One of his best-known series was The Park Avenue Hunt Club, which appeared in \u003ci\u003eDetective Fiction Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilips owned a newspaper, and wrote columns for other newspapers. He owned an equity summer stock theater, \"The Sharon Playhouse,\" where he wrote novels and produced plays. In the meantime, he wrote radio and film scripts for movies and television. He hosted a political and arts program in Connecticut's \"Northwest Corner,\" broadcast out of Torrington.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilips was married five times and had four children. He died of complications from emphysema in 1989, at age 85, in Canaan, Conn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42716042919999,"sku":"9781530085217","price":24.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a11061142bdc40508b2987f30e5966ea.webp?v=1765073535","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-24th-horse-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}