Epitaph for a Tramp & Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels
(Part of the Harry Fannin Series and Harry Fannin Series)
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Before achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, David Markson paid the rent by writing several crime novels, including two featuring the private detective Harry Fannin. Together here in one volume, these works are now available to a new generation of readers.
In Epitaph for a Tramp, Fannin isn't called out to investigate a murder -- it happens on his doorstop. In the sweltering heat of a New York August night, he answers the buzzer at his door to find his promiscuous ex-wife dying from a knife wound. To find her killer, Fannin plies his trade with classic hard-boiled aplomb. In the second novel, Epitaph for a Dead Beat, Fannin finds himself knee-deep in murder among the beatniks and bohemians of the early 1960s, where blood seems to flow as readily as cheap Chianti.
Intricately plotted and rife with wisecracks, David Markson offers suspenseful and literary crime novels.
In Epitaph for a Tramp, Fannin isn't called out to investigate a murder -- it happens on his doorstop. In the sweltering heat of a New York August night, he answers the buzzer at his door to find his promiscuous ex-wife dying from a knife wound. To find her killer, Fannin plies his trade with classic hard-boiled aplomb. In the second novel, Epitaph for a Dead Beat, Fannin finds himself knee-deep in murder among the beatniks and bohemians of the early 1960s, where blood seems to flow as readily as cheap Chianti.
Intricately plotted and rife with wisecracks, David Markson offers suspenseful and literary crime novels.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1593761341
ISBN13:9781593761349
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Catapult
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.73 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 4.6" x 7.9"
Related Subjects
Fiction Hard-Boiled Literary Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseCustomer Reviews
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Moody noir stories
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
David Markson wrote two noir novellas, the first of which is the best: moody, dark, cynical, just what one wants in a Manhattan noir story.
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