Desperate Days

Vance, Jack

ISBN 10: 1596064633 / ISBN 13: 9781596064638

Published by Subterranean Press, 2012

About this Item

1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the lovely dustjacket is in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. Youll feel elated, brimming with panache and elan, like Cugel the Clever, having just eluded the clutches of both Iucouno the Laughing Magician and Chun the Unavoidable, the melancholy light of the dying sun faltering above you as you settle back to appreciate the many excellences of this treasured volume. NOTE: NOT the limited or numbered edition. NOTE: Light smudge on the bottoms of the pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Desperate Days
• Publisher: Subterranean Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596064633
• ISBN 13: 9781596064638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Desperate Days, Volume 2 Follow-up volume to: Dangerous ways: selected mysteries. Full description

From the Inside Flap

Being there Jack Vance has long been F&SF's grand master of regional science fiction, creating living, breathing locales on distant worlds or on our own fabulously transformed, often magical future Earth that are second to none.But at the same time he was giving us these vivid, award-winning fantasy and science fictional settings, even as he was exploring the far corners of this world as a keen and inveterate traveller, Jack was vigorously pursuing an exciting and promising parallel career as a writer of mystery and suspense novels under his given name of John Holbrook Vance.The three JHV mysteries featured here, The Fox Valley Murders, The Pleasant Grove Murders and The Dark Ocean were produced during the mid-60s, in the same fertile years that Jack sent Cugel the Clever off exploring the Dying Earth in The Eyes of the Overworld, left Sklar Hast to face danger among the kragen in The Blue World and gave Kirth Gersen a third Demon Prince to track down in The Palace of Love.Even as Jack was hard at work producing high adventure in such interstellar regional locales as Sogdian, Sarkovy and Blue World, he found time to don his other hat and concoct always interesting, often life-changing, sometimes desperate, adventures for Sheriff Joe Bain in Central California's San Rodrigo County, a Vance setting as intricate, vividly rendered and closely observed as any of his SF and fantasy creations. So, too, he gave personable, wilful naïf Betty Haverhill all manner of life and death thrills aboard the Italian freighter Garda on its way to Europe.A follow-up volume to the widely acclaimed Dangerous Ways: Selected Mysteries, Subterranean Press is proud to present Desperate Days: Selected Mysteries 2, a book not just for the true connoisseur of the master's distinctive blend of intrigue and derring-do, but for anyone who relishes a good, well-told detective yarn set in an unforgettable time and place.