James Sallis is the acclaimed author of more than two dozen volumes of fiction, poetry, translation, essays, and criticism, including the Lew Griffin cycle,
Drive
,
Cypress Grove
,
Cripple Creek
, and
Salt River
. His biography of the great crime writer Chester Himes is an acknowledged classic. Sallis lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Karyn.
Novels
The Long-Legged Fly
Moth
Black Hornet
Eye of the Cricket
Bluebottle
Ghost of a Flea
Death Will Have Your Eyes
Renderings
Drive
Cypress Grove
Cripple Creek
Salt River
What You Have Left: The Turner Trilogy
Stories
A Few Last Words
Limits of the Sensible World
Time’s Hammers: Collected Stories
A City Equal to My Desire
Potato Tree and Other Stories
Poems
Sorrow’s Kitchen
My Tongue in Other Cheeks: Selected Translations
As editor
Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany
Jazz Guitars
The Guitar in Jazz
Other
The Guitar Players
Difficult Lives
Saint Glinglin
by Raymond Queneau (translator)
Gently into the Land of the Meateaters
Chester Himes: A Life
A James Sallis Reader
Copyright © 2011 by James Sallis
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Sallis, James, 1944–
The killer is dying / by James Sallis.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8027-7945-8 (hardcover)
1. Phoenix (Ariz.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.A462K55 2011
813'.54—dc22
2010038548
First published in the U.S. by Walker Publishing Company in 2011
This e-book edition published in 2011
E-book ISBN: 978-0-8027-7946-5
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