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Farmer planned to write a sequel.
DEDICATION: "My heartfelt thanks for data provided me by the following:
Rick Baker, Mary Kay Berjohn, Terry Bibo, Lynn and Julia Carl, Richard
Corley, M.D., Bette Andre Farmer, Bob Hinman, Bill Knight, Gloria
LaHood, George T. McWhorter, Don Oberle, Patrick Rhode, M.D., Charles
and Janet Roth, Ralph Sawyer, Lil Schindler, Dede Weil, and Gary Wolfe.
All were very helpful and saved me much time and sweat." |
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This one is for fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ever-present
gratuitous violence of Robert Altman. It is a direct descendant of
Micky Spillane's Mike Hammer and the mystery action pulps epitomized by
Black Mask. Philip José Farmer, one of the great living SF
writers,
who has published many varieties of pulp fiction, who has written
novels of Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Oz, now turns his hand to the
detective novel, with colorful, violent results.
A self-obsessed
private detective married to a sincere wiccan is hired to witness an
illegal transfer of money in a rainy cemetery, a transaction that goes
bloody wrong. Chasing the bad guys, he ends up the prisoner of a
gruesome threesome in their Dogpatchy cabin in the woods. His escape
involves nudity, blood, death, and a terrible snapping turtle.
That's
how the mystery begins. Then it leads the private eye through all the
levels of Peoria society, geography, and history. Absurdly funny things
happen continually in the peripheral vision of the story. No violence
is left out.
Greed, venality, and hatred are unleashed. Unpleasant
family history is brought to light. All the sex is offstage. The body
count mounts steadily, with occasional mutilations. Nothing Burns in
Hell is pulp fiction at its most excessively gorgeous.
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FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: Forge
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ISBN 0-312-86470-1
hardcover (21,5×14,5cm)
05/1998
287
$ 22.95
Thomas Canty
Black paper boards, with green gilt lettering on the spine. 'First
Edition' stated on the copyright page, first printing per number line.. |
Thomas Canty
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New York, NY: Forge
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ISBN 0-312-86470-1
hardcover (21,5×14,5cm)
05/1998
287
$ 22.95
Thomas Canty
Black paper boards, with green gilt lettering on the spine. 'First
Edition' stated on the copyright page, second printing per number line. |
Thomas Canty
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New York, NY: Tor Books
Mystery
ISBN 0-812-56495-2
paperback (17×10,5cm)
11/1999
287
$ 6.99
Thomas Canty
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