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East of A
by Atwood, Russell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345427769
- ISBN 13
- 9780345427762
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Ballantine Books, 1999. CE1 - A hard cover first edition book in very good+ condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. Stated first edition with a sequence of numbers appearing on back of the title page with the "1" present and no additional printings indicated. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in charcoal gray paper covered boards quarter bound in textured black paper with gold lettering on the spine wiith only very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of a tiny patch of very, very light scuffing on the back spine edge near the top corner. A novel about a main character driven by visions of the white-knight heroes of Golden Age detective fiction. He returns to the Lower East Side after a time and manages to stumble into trouble when he takes a wrong turn and is beaten up and robbed of his Rolex by three heavies and a 16 year old girl runaway. He begins following clues to try to retrieve his watch but ends up in a dusk-to-dawn nightmare on the wilde side that will only end with death. 211p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.75"x8.5".
Synopsis
A native of Westfield, Massachusetts, Russell Atwood attended the American University of Washington, D.C., where he co-founded the student magazine American Library. Afterward, he moved to New York City and served as the managing editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He has worked as an off-Broadway house manager at the Orpheum and Westside Theatres, and also as an editor at A&E Monthly magazine, writing the "Mystery Page column and interviewing crime-fiction luminaries. In 1996 he published his first mystery short story (the introduction of private investigator Payton Sherwood) in Ellery Queen: "East of A. The namesake of that story now initiates Russell Atwood's career as a novelist. The author lives in the East Village of New York City.
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW08342
- Title
- East of A
- Author
- Atwood, Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345427769
- ISBN 13
- 9780345427762
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Fiction Mystery Murder Crime Detective Hard Boiled Detectives Hard Boiled Sleuth Sleuths PI Private Investigator Private Investigators New York City Alphabet Hellhole Nightclub Nightclubs Dive After-hour Dives After-hour Barrio Tenement Bario Tenements R
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mystery / Crime Fiction;
- Size
- 5.75"x8.5"
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