CARNEY KILL by Alter, Robert Edmond - 1993

N.Y.: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1993. Oversize trade paperback, fine. 1st, thus. A masterpiece of lurid menace from the underbelly of the South. On his first day working for Cochrane's carny, Thaxton found that his new boss was married to his ex-wife. On the second day he found his boss's body--with one of May's throwing knives planted firmly in its chest.With its impeccably rendered carnival setting and its delirously crooked array of spielers, luc-boys, and dancing girls with indecent hips and sub-zero hearts, it is crime fiction at its most devious and pungent. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Cover. New. Trade Paperback.