A Gun for Sale A Gun for Sale A Gun For Sale is a 1936 novel by Graham Greene about a criminal called Raven, a man dedicated to ugly deeds. When he is paid, with stolen notes, for killing the Minister of War, he becomes a man on the run. Tracking down the agent who double-crossed him, and eluding the police simultaneously, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted. The novel was published and filmed in the United States under the title "This Gun For Hire". The novel prefigures Greene's later, more famous, work, "Brighton Rock", wherein Pinkie Brown's killing of Hale sets
Nancy Hale said that "she meant it to be.". Her second novel, "Never Any More", published in 1934, was about the antagonism of three girls whose mothers are friends. By this time, Hale had divorced Hardin, with whom she had one son, Mark. In 1935, she married the journalist, Charles Wertenbaker and, in 1936, moved with him to Charlottesville, Virginia. That same year, she published her first collection of short stories, "The Earliest Dreams". She and Wertenbaker had a son, named William, in 1938, but the couple divorced in 1941. In 1942, Hale married Fredson Bowers, a professor of English at the