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American Mystery Classics
June 2026
On Sale: May 26, 2026
216 pages
ISBN: 1613167687
EAN: 9781613167687
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A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father in this noir novel from the author of Specialty of the House.
Every sports fan in New York knows Al Judge, the hardbitten reporter whose column is the scourge of gamblers, gangsters, and corrupt players across the city. Sixteenyearold George LaMain is Judge's biggest fan—until the night when his own father becomes the target of the journalist’s attacks, taken down in a public spectacle of violent humiliation.
Reeling from a moment that upends his whole worldview, George takes his father's gun and sets out into the night on a quest for revenge. But before he can achieve the vigilante justice he seeks, the young man will make a series of discoveries that reveal an unsettling truth about the family he thought he knew.
A noirtinged coming of age novel by the master of the mystery story, Dreadful Summit is a riveting, atmospheric revenge novel rendered with both depth and suspense. It was included in the HaycraftQueen cornerstone list of the greatest mysteries of all time, and inspired the 1951 Joseph Losey film The Big Night.
Introduction by Andrew Klavan.
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