Epitaph for a Tramp & Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels

by David Markson

Book Overview

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...

• 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"

Customer Reviews

Moody noir stories

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.