Death Is A Lonely Business.

BRADBURY, Ray [Burt Reynolds].

$850.00

Item Number: 145612

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition, second printing of this classic murder mystery. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “4/7/87 For Burt Reynolds whos ‘the end’ is one of the funniest films ever made! Thanks from Ray Bradbury.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino.

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. "Blending hard-boiled detective fiction with beautiful descriptions of this strange Californian town, Death Is a Lonely Business is well worth investigating" (Dick Adler).