Moth (Lew Griffin) - Hardcover

Sallis, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881849456 ISBN 13: 9780881849455

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1993

Synopsis

Spurred by a friend's death, Lew Griffin returns from a self-imposed exile to search for his late friend's runaway daughter and to face his troubled relationship with his own father.

About this title

Review:

"If you like Walter Mosley, then Sallis walks the same streets, but the walk is faster, the streets darker. Buy this book." -- Crime Time

"James Sallis is doing some of the most interesting and provocative work in the field of private eye fiction. His New Orleans is richly atmospheric and darker than noir." -- Lawrence Block

"Speaking of Jim Sallis in the same tone as Poe and Dostoevski is not overblowing on my part. His early work indicates a mind and a talent of uncommon dimensions." -- Harlan Ellison

From the Back Cover:

On of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead - and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy dead-end world of users and abusers...leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery.

Abandoning his former career for the safe respectability of teaching, Lew Griffin now spends his time in an old house in the garden district - determined to keep his distance from the lowlife temptations of the New Orleans night. But an inescapable obligation to an old friend is drawing the tormented black ex-p.i. to danger like a moth to a flame. And there will be no turning back when his history comes calling and the dying begins again.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0881849456
• ISBN 13: 9780881849455
• Binding: Hardcover