Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat
Author: Markson, David
ISBN: 9781593761349
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Nov 2006
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
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.br>br>In i>Epitaph for a Tramp,/i> 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, i>Epitaph for a Dead Beat,/i> 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.br>br>Intricately plotted and rife with wisecracks, David Markson offers suspenseful and literary crime novels.
ISBN: 9781593761349
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Nov 2006
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
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.br>br>In i>Epitaph for a Tramp,/i> 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, i>Epitaph for a Dead Beat,/i> 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.br>br>Intricately plotted and rife with wisecracks, David Markson offers suspenseful and literary crime novels.
