Sarah Jane is a good cop. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape...

There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part time Private Investigator and blues aficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, his past and his skin, Griffin knows every hidden...

"Drive" von James Sallis ist ein spannungsgeladener Kriminalroman, der die Geschichte eines namenlosen Protagonisten erzählt, der als Stuntfahrer in Hollywood arbeitet und nachts als Fluchtwagenfahrer für kriminelle Aktivitäten tätig...

Lew 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...

A clever, thought-provoking thriller. von Sallis, James

Lew Griffin, now fifty years old, has abandoned his former career as a New Orleans private investigator for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back. One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin’s dark and violent past has...

In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Dr Lamar Hale, the town's all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon and town conscience.

(DuMont Noir ; 7) [mit Bibliographie] DE, 176 S., kartoniert

Drive von Sallis, James

Lew Griffin ermittelt in einem Vermisstenfall. Wie so oft mit wenig Aussicht auf Erfolg. Die Spuren führen ihn ins Schattenreich des French Quarter in New Orleans mit seinen Bars, Touristenattraktionen und dem Rotlichtmilieu. Doch seine...

Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, it was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when daylight...

Mulholland Books takes pleasure in restoring to print an acclaimed novel of espionage and suspense by the author of Drive. David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the...