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The Long-Legged Fly
James Sallis
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Description for The Long-Legged Fly
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
Part One of the Lew Griffin Series
There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, his past and his skin, Griffin knows every hidden corner of Hell...and is on intimate terms with the demons who dwell there. But the disapperence of a militant woman activist is about to set Griffin on a roller-coaster careening towards rock bottom - carrying the brilliant, tormented black P.I. ever closer to a nightmare that threatens to hit him ... Read more
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Publisher
Oldcastle Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842436967
SKU
V9781842436967
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About James Sallis
James Sallis has published sixteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the LA Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. He ... Read more
Reviews for The Long-Legged Fly
'He's right up there, one of the best of the best. His series of novels about private eye Lew Griffin is thoughtful, challenging and beautifully written'
Ian Rankin
Guardian
'Sallis has created in Lew Griffin one of the great literary characters and written what may very well be the last great detective novel'
Brian Lindemuth
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Ian Rankin
Guardian
'Sallis has created in Lew Griffin one of the great literary characters and written what may very well be the last great detective novel'
Brian Lindemuth
... Read more