This first edition hardcover copy and dust jacket are in very good condition.
This is a collection of 50 very short, very good crime stories. Pronzini ( Deadfall, Shackles) here presents a variety of scenarios, written from a wide range of viewpoints and in a number of stylesusing no more than a few pages in each case. In settings ranging from a wealthy San Francisco suburb to Cricklewood, Mont., from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to a cantina in Mexico, the volume is populated by blackmailers and murderers, thugs and muggers, vigilantes and PIs, shoplifters and con-men, finks, cops, double-crossers, psychotic children, star-crossed lovers, practical-jokers and lynch mobs.
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