A SMILE ON THE FACE OF THE TIGER.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...another bravura performance from a master of the hard-shelled private-eye novel, as well as an author's fond tribute to the forgotten heroes of his genre. Estleman's Detroit gumshoe, a serious drinker-thinker who lives by a tough-guy code that went out of fashion with the Edsel, is sick of hearing that he looks as if he just slouched out of a 1950's paperback novel. But when a publisher hires him to find Eugene Booth, a has-been pulp legend who skipped out on a lucrative contract to reissue his best book, Walker finds himself staring at a streaky mirror image of himself -- if he lives so long." - Marilyn Stasio, NY Times book review, 8/20/00. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (19570). Item #19570
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