{"product_id":"the-complete-cases-of-inspector-allhoff-volume-3-paperback","title":"The Complete Cases of Inspector Allhoff, Volume 3 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. L. Champion\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRafael Desoto\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eCarl Pfeufer\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant, decisive, and hard-charging, Deputy Inspector Allhoff was the NYPD's ace detective until bullets from a mobster's machine gun robbed him of his legs, his career, and-in the opinion of an associate-his sanity. Yet Allhoff was too good a man to be put out to pasture, so New York's police commissioner found a way to keep him employed and refer to him such cases as the department couldn't or wouldn't handle. Confined to a wheelchair and operating from a seedy tenement flat, Allhoff is assisted by two cops: Battersly, the rookie patrolman whose brief moment of cowardice cost the inspector his legs, and Simmons, the bitter career cop who detests Allhoff but sticks with the embittered cripple to protect his own pension. Created by D.L. Champion, Inspector Allhoff denied most conventions of detective-pulp fiction. He could never be confused for one of Raymond Chandler's knights errant, trudging down those mean streets. Allhoff was no Rover Boy in trench coat and fedora. He was, in fact, a sadist and a psychopath. With 30 entries published between 1938 and 1946, the Allhoff series was among the most popular and long-lived to appear in \u003cem\u003eDime Detective, \u003c\/em\u003e the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary \u003cem\u003eBlack Mask\u003c\/em\u003e in its impact on the genre. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 3 collects the next seven stories: \"You're the Crime in My Coffee,\" \"Thanks for the Ration Card!,\" \"The Profitable Corpse,\" \"The Diplomatic Corpse,\" \"Aaron Had a Rod,\" \"The Day Nobody Died,\" and \"Go Home and Die!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 330\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 29, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47410044600498,"sku":"9781618276162","price":43.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b1de64af5ca338cb2862a5987f25bd58.webp?v=1778275409","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-complete-cases-of-inspector-allhoff-volume-3-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}