Fiddle City (First Printing)

Kavanagh, Dan (Barnes, Julian)

ISBN 10: 0224019775 / ISBN 13: 9780224019774

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1981

About this Item

First edition, first impression of the scarcest Dan Kavanagh. Fine: tight and square binding in sharp blue boards; a trace of rubbing to the spine tips, else crisp and clean. The unclipped dustwrapper (£5.95 net stated) is Very Good: crisp and unfaded, Fine but for an 8mm tear to the foot of the rear flap and an abraded patch with some surface loss and adhesive shadow (including a 1cm edge tear) to the front flap; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. A nice copy. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.

Seller Inventory # M104

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiddle City (First Printing)
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224019775
• ISBN 13: 9780224019774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime & Mystery

About this title

Synopsis

Duffy’s latest The thieves of Heathrow AirportDown-and-out Duffy takes a stranger home from the pub for a one-night stand to take his mind off his scuffling private security business. But his bedmate surprises him with a job offer the next morning. Turns out Mr. Right Now is chummy with the freight thieves of Heathrow. The airport’s crooks pride themselves on their restraint, but someone has been pilfering much more than his share. The Heathrow hoods need a detective to find out who has been robbing them. The seedy, sly Duffy is the only man for such an absurd job. But when he baits his hook for the bad thieves, he lands something much more dangerous.

About the Author

Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946. Having devoted his adolescence to truancy, venery and petty theft, he left home at seventeen and signed on as a deckhand on a Liberian tanker. After jumping ship at Montevideo, he roamed across the Americas taking a variety of jobs: he was a steer-wrestler, a waiter-on-roller-skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He is currently working in London at jobs he declines to specify, and lives in north Islington.