Description
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.
Author: David Markson
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 7.92h x 4.58w x 0.95d
ISBN13: 9781593761349
ISBN10: 1593761341
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Family Life | Marriage & Divorce
- Fiction | Literary
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.
Author: David Markson
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 7.92h x 4.58w x 0.95d
ISBN13: 9781593761349
ISBN10: 1593761341
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Family Life | Marriage & Divorce
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
David Markson is the author of five novels, including Springer's Progress, Wittgenstein's Mistress, and Reader's Block. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Salon Book Award. He lives in New York City.