Valdez is Coming by Elmore Leonard [FIRST EDITION] 1970 • Fawcett Crest

Valdez is Coming by Elmore Leonard 

FIRST EDITION [1970] FAWCETT CREST

*Published as a Fawcett mass market paperback original.   October printing w/ movie tie-in blurb on rear cover.

Vintage paperback in very good condition.

Cover shows some visible wear; chipped corner on lower rear and some read wear to spine.

Reads beautifully with some inevitable tanning to pages.  Tiny markings to corner of first page.

They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem -- and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice -- and some money for the dead man's woman -- they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die...