ON THE SHADY SIDE

by Frank Swinnerton

First edition. "A perfect bookman's book." A novel about the death of an author and efforts of his brother to "tidy up the wreckage of Shaun's adventures with ambition, travel and women." vi , 224 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

226 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Frank Arthur Swinnerton was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist.
He was the author of more than 50 books, and as a publisher's editor helped other writers including Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey. His long life and career in publishing made him one of the last links with the generation of writers that included H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett.

(wikipedia)

Reviews

[Karl]

This hardcover edition of “On the Shady Side" is volume 42 in the Garland Publishing, Inc. series of books printed as “50 Classics of Crime Fiction 1950 – 1975” chosen by Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor and is a re-print, originally published in 1971 as a hardcover by Doubleday.

Small print run. No dust wrapper.

The list of 50 Classics of Crime Fiction 1950–1975 can be found here although I just noticed that the sequence of the books in this list is not correct:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: a thriller about two brothers. We are given few physical clues; the detection of the crime lies in the psychological clues.