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Bezig met laden... Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels (2007)door David Markson
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From the author of the wonderful and strange modern classics 'Wittgenstein's Mistress' and 'This is Not a Novel' comes a re-issue of some early work written "to pay the rent" in the late 50s. These are straight beatnik-pulp-noir detective stories with lots of booze, tough talk, broads, and touches of high brow literary references (Ginsberg! Gaddis!) Get your kicks with the cook kids! -Steve
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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. InEpitaph 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This book is just plain old fashioned over the top hardboiled PI fun. Every page is an absolute joy to read.
"Epitaph For A Deadbeat" is the second novel in this double feature. It's the "B" side. It's a fun read, but not quite the story "Tramp" is. This one, too, features wisecracking PI Harry Fannin and some violent murders. Here, Fannin walks into the wrong bar and the trouble starts from there. This one is all about the beatniks and their crazy lifestyle in Greenwich Village. They are all nutty want-to-be poets and trampy women floating in a haze from bed to bed. Fannin doesn't exactly approve of the Beats and what goes on in the Village.
Together, the two stories are fun, good, and worthwhile. ( )