Slippery Hitch

For the knot of the same name, see Slippery hitch.
Slippery Hitch
Cover artwork of Jarrolds Publishing's 1948 British hardcover edition.
AuthorGerald Butler
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime, thriller
Set inLondon
PublisherJarrolds
Publication date
27 May 1948 (1948-05-27)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
OCLC10534256
Cover artwork of Dell Publishing's 1951 American paperback edition.

Slippery Hitch is a 1946-written but 1948-published crime thriller novel by English writer Gerald Butler.[1] [2] Published by Jarrolds Publishing on 27 May 1948,[3] it was Butler's fifth novel and is written in the noirish hardboiled style of the era. American editions were published by Rinehart & Company (hardcover, 1949) and Dell Publishing (paperback, 1951).

Due to the success of his earlier novels, the film rights were optioned by Hollywood film production company Warner Brothers Pictures in December 1946, before the novel was published, though no film was ultimately produced.[4]

  1. ^ Hubin p.59
  2. ^ Bordwell p.514
  3. ^ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "Slippery hitch". Copyright Renewals - Spotlight at Stanford. Retrieved 2024-04-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Newspaper World, Issues 2556-2579. Newspaper world, 1947. p.100