The Double Take

  • New York: William Morrow & Company, 1946
By Roy Huggins
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1946. Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1946. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, red spine lettering, red topstain; [6],240pp. Light rubbing to cloth margins, faint soil to boards, spine a bit cocked and red lettering dulled, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, sound copy, albeit lacking the uncommon jacket.

The notable television producer's first novel, a noir mystery which served as the source for the 1948 film "I Love Trouble." Huggins went on to work on such successful and long-running shows as "Maverick," "The Fugitive," and "The Rockford Files," in part thanks to naming nineteen former comrades before the HUAC in 1952.

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