First Cases #4: The Early Years of Famous Detectives

Spillane, Michey; Jance, J.A.; Van Gieson, Judith & 10 others, Illustrated by:

ISBN 10: 0451205499 / ISBN 13: 9780451205490

Published by Signet, 2002

About this Item

Mystery/Adventure Some rubbing & edgewear; creases; small chips at edges/cornersline through barcode on inside of cover; previous owner's initials/date inside; yellowing; otherwise overall clean & tight. 279 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Cases #4: The Early Years of Famous Detectives
• Publisher: Signet
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451205499
• ISBN 13: 9780451205490
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: VG-.
• Condition: na
• Dust Jacket Condition: Paperback
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About this title

Synopsis

An outstanding collection of thirteen stories-including one never-before-published-of famous sleuths taking their first steps in gumshoes and cracking their very first cases.

Featuring: Mickey Spillane
Michael Collins
Edward D. Hoch (writing as Stephen Dentinger)
Warren Murphy
Lia Matera
Judith van Gieson
John Harvey
J.A. Jance
Sharon Zukowski
Stuart Kaminsky
Maan Meyers
Jan Burke
Terence Faherty

About the Author

Robert J. Randisi is the author of the Miles Jacoby, Nick Delvecchio, and Joe Keough mystery series. He has been nominated four times for the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. In 1993 he was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Mystery/Suspense Convention. He is the editor of more than 25 print and audio anthologies, including the Deadly Allies, Lethal Ladies, For Crime Out Loud and First Cases series. His most recent anthologies are The Shamus Game (NAL, 2000) and Mystery Street (NAL, 2001), both PWA anthologies.

His most recent book, Blood on the Arch (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), a “Joe Keough” novel, will be published in paperback from Leisure Books this fall. The year 2001 will see the publication of the novel The Masks of Auntie Laveau, co-authored with Christine Matthews, as well as Delvecchio’s Brooklyn, a collection of his “Nick Delvecchio” short stories. He is the Founder and Permanent Executive Director of the Private Eye Writers of America, the creator of the Shamus Award, the co-founder of Mystery Scene magazine and The American Crime Writer’s League, and the former mystery reviewer for The Orlando Sentinel.