Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat

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.. . In Epitaph For A Tramp 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 Epitaph For A Dead Beat 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.. . Intricately Plotted And Rife With Wisecracks David Markson Offers Suspenseful And Literary Crime Novels.