MOJO HAND

Tom Doherty. New. 1999. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. 0312876106 . Signed and Dated by author on title page. New book, small remainder marking on top edge of pages, one back corner has some light creasing - otherwise as new. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Review: "California disc-jockey (and former rock star) Kihn brings back Beau Young of the Stone Savages from Big Rock Beat (1998) The authors recipe is simple: take Nan and Ivan Lyons' deliciously droll mystery, Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe (1976) ; replace cooks with black American bluesmen. Vincent Shives, an albino guitarist as yet unfledged by playing in public, goes to New Orleans, where an ancient black zombie woman for $5,000 sells him the Mojo Hand, a mummified, severed human appendage that seems not quite dead. Beau has dropped rock 'n' roll to recover from a coke habit and play the blues with legendary harpist Oakland Slim. Suddenly Slim's buddies among the giantsRed Tunney, Art Spivey, and B. Bobby Bostare being murdered, opened up like cans of tomato soup by some sort of claw. Yes, it's the Mojo Hand, which climbs out of its shoebox while Vincent is sleeping and goes off to murder his rivals..... "(275os? ); Signed by Author .