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Long-Legged Fly/Moth: Nos. 1 & 2 in the Lew Griffin Series

Long-Legged Fly/Moth: Nos. 1 & 2 in the Lew Griffin Series


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About the Book

Set in the more sordid parts of New Orleans, Long Legged Fly and Moth feature a black private investigator who has a bad drink problem, a shady past and a present that continually tries to drag him down into the depths of hell.'

About the Author :
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 has received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature policière.

Review :
A hard-boiled PI investigates missing persons cases in New Orleans's French Quater over a span of three decades in this uncoventional suspense novel. --"Publishers Weekly
Black detective Lew Griffin skips his father's final illness (New Orleans, 1964) when he's hired to find a missing person--well-known black leader Corene Davis. Successfully finding Davis, he repeats the trick three times--searching for runaway teenager Cordelia Crayson in 1970, his friend Jimmy Smith's kid sister Cherie in 1984, and finally his own long-unseen son David in 1990. The searches are understated, variously successful, and seasoned with increasingly elegiac glimpses of Lew's erratic home life (his unlikely romance with British nurse Vicky, his repeated return to his obliging friend LaVerne); and readers waiting for first-novelist Sallis (the story collection A Few Last Words, 1970) to drop the connections among them will wait in vain. But an unexpectedly poignant sketch of the detective emerges through the apparent holes in the plot. Not so much a detective story as a story about a detective, then- -but one that exploits the conventions of the genre with quietly distinctive power. Likely target audience: people who think James Lee Burke's moody Dave Robicheaux novels are overplotted. --"Kirkus Reviews


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781901982411
  • Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: No Exit Press
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Sub Title: Nos. 1 & 2 in the Lew Griffin Series
  • ISBN-10: 1901982416
  • Publisher Date: 25 May 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 129 mm


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