Their Rainbow Had Black Edges
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.jpg) Cover artwork of Jarrolds Publishing's 1943 first hardcover edition. | |
| Author | Gerald Butler |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime, thriller |
| Set in | England |
| Publisher | Jarrolds |
Publication date | July 1943 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| OCLC | 12643003 |
Their Rainbow Had Black Edges is a 1943 crime thriller novel by English writer Gerald Butler.[1] It is his third novel and is written in the noir style popular at the time.[2]
The first British hardcover edition was published by Jarrolds Publishing in July 1943.[3] This was Butler's first novel to be published outside of England,[4] with American publishers Farrar & Rinehart signing him to a multi-book contract. Their Rainbow Had Black Edges was published in the United States under the alternative title Dark Rainbow on 8 November 1945.[5]
Their Rainbow Had Black Edges is the story of a soldier who never saw the war. The world would call Ranny weak-minded; the only thing in him that had any lasting strength was his love for Elizabeth. Across the pages of this book crawls boredom, maddening boredom, and the yearnings for a woman's arms. Then in breathless sequence come desertion, discovery, arrest. But on the long, dragging journey back, the fires burn again inside him, and he risks a desperate break away from his armed escort. Finally the woman who loves and hides him is faced with a choice that she hardly dares to make.