Eye Of The Cricket.

JAMES SALLIS

Publication: Scorpion Press, 1998, Blakeney

First edition. One of 85 numbered copies in a special binding and signed by the author. With an appreciation by Walter Satterthwait. Fine in quarter leather and marbled boards in transparent dust jacket. Det. Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a teacher, and a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son. A derelict turns up in a city hospital claiming to be Griffin's son. It's the beginning of a search that will take him into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with the search for three missing young men.

Inventory Number: 11027