"I Am A Good Cop."

ONE MONDAY WE KILLED THEM ALL

By John D. MacDonald

(1963)

Uncommon first UK edition of this noir thriller, originally published in paperback in 1961, with spectacular cover art by Barbara Walton.

Very good plus in very good plus jacket.

Price: $750.00

ONE MONDAY WE KILLED THEM ALL

"Most men who become cops do so when other dreams become unattainable. They go onto the force as a compromise with reality."

For this early-'60s crime novel, MacDonald reached into his inexhaustible well of very good titles and retrieved a particularly good one, even by his own high standards. ONE MONDAY WE KILLED THEM ALL is told in the first person by a hard-headed, close-mouthed, tender-hearted cop with a violent criminal for a brother-in-law and a woman he loves for a wife; in the end, enough brutal violence ensues to make even this most stoic of lone heroes willing to talk about his feelings. A classic of its kind.

The Object

London: Robert Hale Limited, (1963). 7.75'' x 5''. Original dark brown cloth with silver-lettered spine. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket by Barbara Walton. 191, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards, mild chipping to jacket extremities. A few spots of soil to rear endpapers and rear jacket panel.

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