Epitaph for a tramp & Epitaph for a dead beat : the Harry Fannin detective novels / David Markson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markson, David.

Language:

English

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

377 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Epitaph for a tramp and Epitaph for a dead beat

Place of Publication:

Emeryville, CA : Shoemaker & Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Epitaph for a tramp originally published: New York : Dell, 1959. Epitaph for a dead beat originally published: New York : Dell, 1961.

Contains:

Markson, David. Epitaph for a dead beat.

Epitaph for a dead beat.

ISBN:

1593761341

9781593761349

OCLC:

71369268

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