The Gray Flannel Shroud.

Henry Slesar

The Gray Flannel Shroud.

New York:

Random House

1958

Henry Slesar was an advertising executive when he penned his first novel, set in a Madison Avenue agency. He had been earning his living with his typewriter from the age of seventeen, writing copy, pulp magazine stories, and television scripts. The Gray Flannel Shroud won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel in 1960. His title was a play on The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a 1955 novel by Sloan Wilson and the subsequent 1956 film, both of which explored upward mobility and corporate life.

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson