The LongLegged Fly, James Sallis
The LongLegged Fly, James Sallis
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The LongLegged Fly
A Lew Griffin Mystery

Author: James Sallis

Narrator: G. Valmont Thomas

Unabridged: 4 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/06/2008

Synopsis

In steamy New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has once again taken on a seemingly hopeless missingperson case. The trail takes him through the underbelly of the French Quarter with its bar girls, pimps, and tourist attractions. As his search leads to one violent dead end and then another, Griffin is confronted with the prospect that his own life has come to resemble those of the people he is attempting to find. Waking in a hospital after an alcoholic binge, Griffin finds another chance in a nurse who comes to love him, but again he reverts to his old life in the mean streets among the predators and their prey. When his son vanishes, Griffin searches back through the tangles and tatters of his life, knowing that he must solve his personal mysteries before he can venture after the whereabouts of others.

About James Sallis

James Sallis has published more than a dozen novels, several books of musicology, multiple collections of short stories, poems, and essays, and more. His works have been short-listed for the Anthony, Nebula, Edgar, Shamus, and Gold Dagger awards. Sallis is best known for his novel Drive, which was made into an award-winning motion picture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on July 10, 2018

Collections of shorter work by authors known for novels have never sold, which make sense when you think about it. If you are known for one thing and you veer off into something else--even if it’s related by format or is a different aspect of the same art form--you’re going to lose followers. Publis......more

Goodreads review by Bill on September 10, 2019

This is an odd book, but I liked it. It is not so much a private-eye novel as a private-eye symphony in four movements, each tied to a particular year (1964, 1970, 1984, 1990), that show us four cases in the life of investigator Lew Griffin and how he—and the city he loves, New Orleans—flow through......more

Goodreads review by Richard on February 15, 2015

"In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick the hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning."This book is unlike any other detective novel I've read. You know how in all detective stories you get the s......more

Goodreads review by Greg on October 29, 2011

Lately I've been on a crime fiction jag. I have a giant stack of read but not reviewed books sitting next to my computer, and I better get cracking at reviewing them, most of them are library books and they have to get back soon. I think I might be over-dosing a little on the genre, the stories will......more

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