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       BOOKS BY JAMES SALLIS  

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The Long-Legged Fly

Paperback - 200 pages
(November 2001), Walker & Co. Publishers
Accepting a missing persons case in New Orleans, black private investigator Lew Griffin patrols the seamy side of the French Quarter, only to unveil a nightmare that parallels his own experiences and discover that his son has been kidnapped.
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Bluebottle

Paperback - 161 pages
(November 2000), Walker & Co. Publishers
Lew Griffin's fifth outing begins when someone fires a shot towards him. When he fully comes to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Somewhere in the Crescent City there's an answer . . . and some very strange allies . . . if they can be trusted.
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Ghost of a Flea

Hardcover - 237 pages
(November 2001), Walker & Co. Publishers
The enigmatic saga of the likable New Orleans private eye Lew Griffin draws to a satisfyingly convoluted closure in this sixth and final installment. Evoking a stark metaphysical landscape where time hovers on the verge of midnight and the sky is pregnant with rain, Sallis explores similar concerns over identity and the role of the detective as those found in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy.
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Eye of the Cricket

Paperback - 196 pages
0 Edition (April 2000), Walker & Co. Publishers
Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.
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Sorrow's Kitchen Poems by James Sallis

Paperback - 124 pages
1st Edition (December 2000), Michigan State University Press
Slightly surrealistic, meditative, elegiac, this collection of poetry from author James Sallis is concerned with aging, relationships, loss, and love.
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