NEW YORK:
Confidential!
Books by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer
CHICAGO: CONFIDENTIAL!
WASHINGTON: CONFIDENTIAL!
By Jack Lait
HELP WANTED
THE BIG HOUSE
BROADWAY MELODY
BEAST OF THE CITY
PUT ON THE SPOT
GANGSTER GIRL
BEEF, IRON AND WINE (short stories)
GUS THE BUS
OUR WILL ROGERS
WILL ROGERS' WIT AND WISDOM
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL WRITING
By Lee Mortimer
NEW YORK BEHIND THE SCENES
NEW YORK:
Confidential!
by
JACK LAIT
and
LEE MORTIMER
New Revised Edition
CROWN PUBLISHERS, Inc. · NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1948, 1951, BY CROWN PUBLISHERS INC.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in anyform whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, exceptby a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed ina magazine or a newspaper.
Sixth Printing, February, 1951
Revised Edition, September, 1951
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AMERICAN BOOK-KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, INC., NEW YORK
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