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Payton Sherwood, a novice private detective in New York's East Village, stumbles upon a murder that draws him into the dark and desperate underside of the city, in a neo-noir urban mystery. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
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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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Payton Sherwood, a novice private detective in New York's East Village, stumbles upon a murder that draws him into the dark and desperate underside of the city.
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- PublisherBallantine Books Inc.
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0345427769
- ISBN 13 9780345427762
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages211
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