The Butcher's Wife
$ 6.00
Author: Owen Cameron
Publisher: Dell 896
Year: 1954 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.25
Condition: Book Grades. Very Good. Light wear.
Genre: Fiction/GGA/Crime/Mystery
Pages: 190
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- Crime Fiction / Mystery / Psychological Thriller
- Often classified as a vintage noir pulp novel due to its 1954 paperback release by Dell.
The story begins when Harry Gross, a dedicated local game warden, stumbles upon an abandoned car on a lonely, isolated road. Expecting to find evidence of illegal animal poaching, he instead makes a horrific discovery: the mutilated and tortured bodies of two women inside the vehicle.
Harry is the only person who caught a fleeting glimpse of a man fleeing the scene, forcing him directly into the middle of the murder investigation. The primary suspect quickly becomes a man named Cal, the husband of Libby—a woman Harry was once deeply in love with. As the hunt for Cal intensifies, Harry is forced to confront a dark moral dilemma. He realizes that if Cal is caught and executed, Libby will be free, sparking a dangerous internal struggle regarding his own capacity for violence, jealousy, and dark impulses
