Tiger in the Garden by Speed Lemkin

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1951. Signet. First Printing.

Best novel of American novelist and playwright Hillyer Speed Lamkin, often compared to Truman Capote because of his Gothic prose and literary precocity.

After marrying a young woman from a wealthy family, Jim Conway acquires his own wealth in early 20th century New Orleans but fails to find happiness in his marriage.