{"product_id":"9781593761349","title":"Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBefore 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.\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEpitaph for a Tramp,\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eEpitaph for a Dead Beat,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntricately plotted and rife with wisecracks, David Markson offers suspenseful and literary crime novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055713730800,"sku":"9781593761349","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593761349_p0.jpg?v=1763809150","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593761349","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}