A Fine Dark Line

Joe R. Lansdale

Original title: A fine dark line

earliest edition we have, 2003 Einaudi, 2006 paperback 300 pages

It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like molasses... For thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of the mysterious long-ago demise of two very different yo...

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Editions we hold

La sottile linea scura paperback · 2006 · Einaudi · 300 pages · 9788806185008
A fine dark line edition · 2003 · Mysterious Press · 307 pages
A Fine Dark Line ebook · 2003 · Grand Central Publishing · 9780759598539
A Fine Dark Line. edition · 2003 · Warner · 307 pages
A fine dark line edition · 2003 · Wheeler Pub. · 375 pages

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