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Drive
Av James Sallis
Häftad, 2012
142 kr
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'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And …
Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides
Av James Sallis
Häftad, 2018
219 kr
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Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fictionOriginally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester …
World's Edge
A haunting collection of near-future fiction from a master of American Noir
Av James Sallis
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
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James Sallis’ collection of five novellas.'James Sallis is a superb writer ' - TimesJames Sallis’ World’s Edge presents five masterful novellas—Dayenu, Carriers, Settlers, Allotments, and Reconstruction—exploring fractured societies, human resilience, and the fragile intersections of morality and …
Sarah Jane
Av James Sallis
Häftad, 2019
190 kr
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A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive.A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop.Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming …
Guitar in Jazz
An Anthology
Av James Sallis
Inbunden, 1996
415 kr
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The Guitar in Jazz presents in rich, entertaining detail the history and development of the guitar as a jazz instrument. In a series of essays by some of jazz's leading historians and critics, the volume traces the impressive evolution of jazz guitar playing, from the pioneering styles of Nick …
Guitar Players
One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music
Av James Sallis
Häftad, 1994
211 kr
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"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on the backs of black slaves." The great classical blues period of the 1920s had rich antecedents going back further than plantation orchestras featuring …
Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2018
88 kr
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Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fictionOriginally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester …
Sarah Jane
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2019
86 kr
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A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive.A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop.Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming …
Long-Legged Fly
Av James Sallis
Ljudbok, 2008
192 kr
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In steamy New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has taken on a seemingly hopeless missing-person case. The trail takes him through the underbelly of the French Quarter with its bar girls, pimps, and tourist attractions. As his search leads to one violent dead end and then another, …
Black Hornet
A Lew Griffin Mystery
Av James Sallis
Ljudbok, 2008
196 kr
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A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been fatally shot. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. He''s black and she''s white, and though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to …
Bluebottle
A Lew Griffin Mystery
Av James Sallis
Ljudbok, 2009
192 kr
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As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he’s just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes fully to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. What happened? Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the …
Moth
A Lew Griffin Mystery
Av James Sallis
Ljudbok, 2008
208 kr
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Lew Griffin has quit the detective business and withdrawn to the safety of his old home in New Orleans’ Garden District, where he copes with his past by transforming it into fiction. But following the death of a close friend, he returns to the streets—not only the urban ones he has conquered but …
Ghost of a Flea
A Lew Griffin Mystery
Av James Sallis
Ljudbok, 2009
229 kr
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The mystery of Lew Griffin is revealed in this concluding novel of an honored series. In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Griffin is alone. His relationship with Deborah is falling apart, his son, David, has disappeared again, and Lew is directionless—he hasn’t written anything in years, and he …
Eye of the Cricket
A Lew Griffin Mystery
Av James Sallis
Ljudbok, 2009
229 kr
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Lew Griffin is a survivor, a Black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son—and himself in the process. Now, a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew’s …
Chester Himes
A Life
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2022
155 kr
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"[A] smart, conscientious, often stylish biography" of the great African American crime writer of the mid-twentieth century (The New York Times). Best known for The Harlem Cycle, the series of crime stories featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, Chester Himes was a novelist and …
Sarah Jane
Av James Sallis
Häftad, 1900
176 kr
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A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive. Sarah Jane Pullman is a cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised …
Drive
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2011
88 kr
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'I drive. That's what I do. All I do.' 'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now …
Moth
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2012
81 kr
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One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead - and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers... leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery.Abandoning his …
Black Hornet
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2012
81 kr
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The third part of James Sallis' sequence of novels featuring Lew GriffinIn a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer - by tearing up innocent people like paper targets. The shooter's sixth fatality is cut down …
Eye of the Cricket
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2012
81 kr
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No.4 in the Lew Griffin SeriesLew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process.Now a derelict has …
Bluebottle
Av James Sallis
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
260 kr
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No.5 in the Lew Griffin SeriesAs Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who …
Bluebottle
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2012
88 kr
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No.5 in the Lew Griffin SeriesAs Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who …
Ghost of a Flea
Av James Sallis
E-bok, 2012
86 kr
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In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin is alone again...or almost. He and Deborah are drifting apart. His son David has disappeared again, leaving behind a note that sounds final. Heading homeward from his retirement party, his friend, Don Walsh has been shot while interrupting a …
