Sleight of Hand: Conversations With Walter Satterthwait

165 Pages. Gray boards with burgundy and black lettering to the spine. Attractive burguncy endopapoers. Autographed by Satterthwait and Ernie Bulow at Murder Unlimited of Albuquerque on the title page . Dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Mystery buffs, especially those in the Southwest, have been curious for several years about Walter Satterthwait, whose Joshua Croft detective novels, set in a very authentic Santa Fe, have been published in a series beginning with Wall or Glass in 1987. In Sleight of Hand, mystery maven Ernie Bulow, whose interview with Tony Hillerman was published in 1991 as Talking Mysteries, talks to his friend Satterthwait not just about the Joshua Croft mysteries but also about Satterthwait's historicals: Miss Lizzie, a novel about Lizzie Borden, and Wilde West, in which Oscar Wilde pays a visit to the Old West. Anyone who loves to read mystery stories or wants to write genre fiction can learn a lot from Satterthwait's honest discussions of the genesis of his career as a writer, the interplay between his own instincts and the marketplace, and his insights into the psychology of evil. Contents in Seven Chapters: Introduction, Walter Satterthwait A Biograpohy in Dialogue, O. Henry Meets JacktheRipper, The Interview, The African Stories MakeNoMistake, Evolution of a Character A Matter of Pride, and Bibliography.…