N.Y.: G.P. Putnam"s Sons, 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Retirees Dottie and Joe Loudermilk, who cruise the land in a trailer home, hit Washington, D.C., to visit their son Eddie in this humorous second entry in the series after Going Nowhere Fast. Dottie, an ex-professor, and Joe, an ex-cop, are salt-of-the-earth, politically conservative black Americans utterly baffled by Eddie's lefty politics. When, after picking a fight with Eddie, his former roommate turns up dead, Joe and Dottie have a case to crack. They believe their son when he says he didn't kill the man, even though witnesses place him at the scene. The only clue seems to be the man's vague boasting that he had just "optioned some book" that would electrify D.C. and make him famous. Grumbling all the way, Joe uses his police smarts to scout up leads, but it's the courageous and sometimes foolish Dottie who presses issues and makes dead ends open up. Haywood (who also writes the Aaron Gunner detective series) gets the narrating Dottie's voice just right; she meets her grown children with a delightfully entertaining blend of frustration and devotion." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

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Gar Anthony Haywood is the author of two highly acclaimed mystery series. His series featuring South Central Los Angeles private investigator Aaron Gunner debuted with the publication of Fear of the Dark , which won the St. Martin's Press/PWA Best Private Eye Novel Contest in 1987. The two succeeding novels in that series, Not Long For This World and You Can Die Trying , received wide praise. It's Not a Pretty Sight (G.P. Putnam's Sons; September 10, 1996) is the fourth book in the Gunner series. Haywood's second series features the comic Loudermilk family and includes the novels Going Nowhere Fast and Bad News Travels Fast . Currently a writer for the FOX television series "New York Undercover," Haywood has also written for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times . He lives in Los Angeles.

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Bookseller: Murder By The Book (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 011377
Title: BAD NEWS TRAVELS FAST
Author: Haywood, Gar Anthony
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0399140174
ISBN 13: 9780399140174
Publisher: G.P. Putnam"s Sons
Place of Publication: N.Y.
Date Published: 1995
Keywords: MYSTERY; WASHINGTON, D.C.; BLACK AUTHOR; MYSTERY & CRIME
Bookseller catalogs: AFRICAN AMERICAN; Washington, D.C;

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