This is the classic '50s noir novel that brought John Huston and Humphrey Bogart together for the last time in film. Published under the pseudonym James Helvick, this sophisticated comedy-thriller was in fact the work of Claud Cockburn, whose early career as a Communist agitator prompted his publisher to demand a pseudonym in the McCarthy years. Beat the Devil shows how effortlessly Cockburn moved from agitprop to elegant and witty fiction. Alexander Cockburn's introduction delves into the long-simmering debate over the real source of the movie's most famous lines. Was it Truman Capote, Anthony Veiller and Peter Viertel, Robert Morley, or Claud Cockburn himself?

Beat the Devil

CLAUD COCKBURN

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

BALLANTYNE'S FOLLY

Contemporary

The Hogarth Press Ltd.

Page edges lightly foxed, no other damage. Hardcover Very Good in Very Good jacket. 6 1/2 By 9 1/2" It was the 1930's, beginning with the collapse of the world economy and ends with WW II, about Claud Cockburn described as the patron saint of the '30's with his news sheet "The Week`` internationally famous.

The Devil's Decade

Mason & Lipscomb

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Beat the Devil

BALLANTYNE'S FOLLY

The Devil's Decade