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Jay, Charlotte. A Hank of Hair: An exquisite danse macabre

Jay, Charlotte. <em>A Hank of Hair: An exquisite danse macabre</em>

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Category: CRIME Tags: A Hank of Hair, Charlotte Jay, Crime, Wakefield Press
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A Hank of Hair: An exquisite danse macabre
by Charlotte Jay.

Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1992.
Reprint, paperback.

Afterword by series editors Peter Moss and Michael J Tolley.

Cover illustration by Darren Pryce.

A Hank of Hair is one of a series of neglected Australian crime writers Wakefield put back into print in the 1990s.

Jay, the pen name of Adelaide mystery writer Geraldine Halls, won the prestigious American Edgar Allan Poe Award for Beat Not the Bones in 1954. A Hank of Hair, her sinister study of obsession was first published 1964, draws on earlier Edwardian masters of atmosphere and psychology like Mr James, while looking forward to later English crime writers, such as Ruth Rendall, who were working on the margins of horror.

Condition: Minor yellowing to page edges otherwise bright cover, unmarked and in excellent condition.

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