Cases
Gores, Joe
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Quantity: 1From Next Chapter Books SC, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
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Quantity: 1About this Item
This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine gilt. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Signed by the Author on the title page and dated 9/20/99 with the following non-personalized inscription: "Do you think we can say this puts you between a rock and a hard case?" (all in his hand). Seller Inventory # 002315
Bibliographic Details
Title: Cases
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Collectible; Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition
About this title
There's the Georgia chain-gang movie, where convicts murder a cruel guard; the Las Vegas crime-and-boxing movie, where an honest pug dies rather than throwing a fight; the Los Angeles religious cult movie, where a young man finds love among the loonies. And finally, there's the movie that Gores has been acting out, and writing down so well, for most of his professional life: the San Francisco private-eye film: part homage to Hammett, but mostly his own richly detailed vision of the world of skip-tracers, hired guns, sexy dames named April and Sherry, and corruptible gumshoes like the memorable Drinker Cope.
Cases may be a less-than-perfect novel, but it's definitely a valuable addition to our knowledge of Gores. It reads best as the source of local color for his greatest hits--from Hammett and Dead Skip to the more recent Menaced Assassin and Contract Null & Void. --Dick Adler
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