Choice of Two Women
Cover artwork of Jarrolds Publishing's 1951 British hardcover edition.
AuthorGerald Butler
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime, thriller
Set inFrench Riviera
PublisherJarrolds
Publication date
20 September 1951 (1951-09-20)
Media typePrint
OCLC810511355
Cover artwork of Dell Publishing's 1953 American paperback edition.

Choice of Two Women is a 1951 crime thriller novel by English writer Gerald Butler.[1] It was his sixth novel and was written in the hardboiled style, at the height of its popularity.[2] It was first published as a hardcover edition in Britain by Jarrolds Publishing on 20 September 1951; Digit Books issued a paperback edition in 1960. In the United States, Rinehart & Company issued the book as a hardcover edition under the alternative title Blow Hot, Blow Cold on 2 July 1951 (Butler's only novel to receive publication in the United States ahead of its British print);[3] the Dell Publishing paperback edition was also issued under the alternate title in 1953.

Synopsis

On the French Riviera, a weak-willed adventurer is forced to choose between an apparently wealthy woman and a poor but honest barmaid who truly loves him. He makes the wrong choice and becomes drawn into a web of crime by the former.

Publication history

References

  1. ^ Hubin p.59
  2. ^ Horsley p.140
  3. ^ a b University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "Blow hot, blow cold". Copyright Renewals - Spotlight at Stanford. Retrieved 2024-04-29.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "The Daily Telegraph from London, Greater London, England". Newspapers.com. 1951-09-21. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
  5. ^ The English catalogue of books. Internet Archive. New York : Kraus Reprint Corporation Publishers' Circular [etc.] 1835.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ The Washington Post 1951-07-29: Iss 27436. Internet Archive. 1951-07-29.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
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