Detour Author:Martin M. Goldsmith A reissue of the classic crime novel by Martin M. Goldsmith which served as the basis of the 1945 film noir masterpiece by Edgar G. Ulmer. A dark tale of a New York jazz musician who, while hitchhiking West, assumes the identity of a dead man and meets a scheming woman intent on blackmail. The novel has a new foreward by the editors of O'Bryan... more » House Publishers« less