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Cornell University; University of Southern California.
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Brown Harvest
( What happens when the Boy Detective grows up, moves awa...)
What happens when the Boy Detective grows up, moves away, and comes home for a visit? His hometown has turned from American-as-apple-pie to darkest noir, his once-innocent girlfriend has transformed into something both more and less than she was, and his father has become a bum. Both parody and tribute to childhood heroes, Brown Harvest appropriates characters familiar to anyone who grew up reading detective stories. Borrowing from the Hardy Boys to Jay Cantor (Krazy Kat) and setting the characters on a collision path with hard-boiled thrillers, young adult mysteries, and classic noir fiction, Jay Russell creates joyful mayhem.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568582110/?tag=2022091-20
Burning Bright
(Having made Los Angeles safe for quality detective drama,...)
Having made Los Angeles safe for quality detective drama, Marty Burns is ready to conquer England with his new show, "Burning Bright". From a secret voodoo temple in the slums of Liverpool, to arcane Druidic rituals in Arthurian Cornwall, he must race to save the soul of a nation.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1854874675/?tag=2022091-20
Brown Harvest by Jay Russell (2001-09-25)
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Waltzes and Whispers by Jay Russell (1999-10-20)
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Waltzes and Whispers
(Jay Russell has written several novels. Now comes this fi...)
Jay Russell has written several novels. Now comes this first collection of his shorter fiction. As you read you will understand that each story is answering a question: How would Dracula have passed his time in the twentieth century? If virtual reality allowed the meeting of minds in cyberspace, then you would need virtual cops, wouldn't you? If death is not the end of love, is that a blessing or a curse? How might the resonances of history or the power of abstract ideas bleed into our everyday lives? If the dead came back to life, would they have the same needs as the living, or would it just be sex, drugs, and zombie rock 'n' roll? What does lie over that rainbow? These stories are sometimes savage, sometimes satirical, but always entertaining as Jay Russell dares to ponder the imponderable.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190191416X/?tag=2022091-20
Celestial Dogs
(Vicious pimps, suspicious cops, Japanese gangsters, Holly...)
Vicious pimps, suspicious cops, Japanese gangsters, Hollywood mega-moguls and all-powerful demons out of the pages of ancient mythology turn Marty's - a sometime TV star cum low-rent LA private eye - world inside out. When he is hired to find a missing prostitute, the race is on to stay alive.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1854874292/?tag=2022091-20
Jay Russell
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He is the creator of Marty Burns, a supernatural detective, who has appeared in a series of novels and short stories beginning with Celestial Dogs. Russell"s fiction is typified by a mixing of genre elements, often overlaid with a comic sensibility. Russell was born in Queens County in New York City.
He attended Cornell University.
He later attended the University of Southern California, receiving a doctorate in communications.
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Brown Harvest
( What happens when the Boy Detective grows up, moves awa...)
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Celestial Dogs
(Vicious pimps, suspicious cops, Japanese gangsters, Holly...)
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Burning Bright
(Having made Los Angeles safe for quality detective drama,...)
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Waltzes and Whispers
(Jay Russell has written several novels. Now comes this fi...)
- Brown Harvest by Jay Russell (2001-09-25)
- Waltzes and Whispers by Jay Russell (1999-10-20)
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Brown Harvest
