Games to Keep the Dark Away

Muller, Marcia

ISBN 10: 0312316208 / ISBN 13: 9780312316204

Published by St Martin's, New York, 1984

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Solid and tight. Light moisture stain to top page edge, does not detract too badly. Jacket nicked. Still a nice tight copy. Seller Inventory # 30382

Bibliographic Details

Title: Games to Keep the Dark Away

Publisher: St Martin's, New York

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

A comic rampage through the polyglot gutters of modern Los Angeles...

When a severed arm decorated with an erotic tattoo appears at an L.A. pathology lab, it's love at first sight. Bob's minimum wage job minding the slabs has never given him agita before, but now he won't rest until he finds the owner of the arm so he can get to the girl who posed for that unforgettable tattoo. But Bob isn't the only one with a stake in finding the arm's owner-the moment he sets off to find his true love, a colorful band of mobsters from Mexico and some of the L.A.P.D.'s finest cross his path in their desperate search for this peculiar piece of evidence.

From Amado, a one-armed murdered addicted to Mexican soap opera, to Martin, a Wharon graduate and cannabis aficionado, to Maura, a masturbation coach with unnatural urges, Bob finds himself entangled in a hilarious stew of murder, sex and mobster-style politics.

A first novel that is as sharp and biting as a salt-rimmed margarita,Faster, with a head-swiveling plot you'll love to untangle, Moist is whip-smart, stylish reading.

About the Author:

Mark Haskell Smith is a screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles. This is his first novel.