New York: Delacorte, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - An offbeat humorous novel with a protagonist who decided that he would never get rich selling encyclopedias and so he quit his job and left his wife and went off to make a killing on the horses - a "zany novel" by the author of 'The Blackboard Jungle' and the 87th Precinct novels under the pseudonym of Ed McBain. 223 pp.