signed first edition
1947 · New York
by Millar, Kenneth [Ross Macdonald]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First printing. Very good plus in very good dust jacket.. Signed first edition of this hardboiled thriller, one of only four titles author Ross Macdonald published under his real name. Before Ross Macdonald's enormously popular Lew Archer mystery series there was BLUE CITY, a hardboiled tale of a WWII veteran who returns home to murder and corruption. Reviewers called it "a whacking good thriller," noting that it is "written without the pell-mell haste with which this sort of thriller is so commonly turned out" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER). When Millar found success writing under the name Macdonald, BLUE CITY was reissued (truncated)