{"product_id":"epitaph-for-a-tramp-and-epitaph-for-a-dead-beat-isbn-9781593761349","title":"Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat","description":"Before 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntricately plotted and rife with wisecracks, David Markson offers suspenseful and literary crime novels.\u003cb\u003eDavid Markson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, including \u003ci\u003eSpringer's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Mistress\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReader's Block\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Salon Book Award. He lives in New York City.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305400684773,"sku":"NP9781593761349","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593761349.jpg?v=1767726325","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/epitaph-for-a-tramp-and-epitaph-for-a-dead-beat-isbn-9781593761349","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}