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Epitaphs Hardcover – October 1, 1992
- Print length232 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDelacorte Press
- Publication dateOctober 1, 1992
- Dimensions8.5 x 5.9 x 1 inches
- ISBN-100385305044
- ISBN-13978-0385305044
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- Publisher : Delacorte Press; First Edition (October 1, 1992)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 232 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0385305044
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385305044
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 5.9 x 1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,722,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #17,682 in Hard-Boiled Mystery
- #226,705 in American Literature (Books)
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As is generally the case in the Nameless series, Nameless's private life figures prominently in the story. Life with Kerry is good, and there are even indications that her mother, long opposed to Nameless's presence in her daughter's life, is willing to make amends. However, Eberhardt, Nameless's partner, is unhappy in the partnership and is contemplating dissolution, quite against Nameless's wishes. Moreover, Eberhardt seems to consider their far more important friendship over.
Pronzini is adept at combining thrilling mysteries with poignant character studies, and several entries in the Nameless series are remarkable for just that combination. EPITAPHS falls short on both counts of the standard Pronzini has set. That being said, EPITAPHS is certainly a worthy read; it's just not Pronzini at his best.
The mystery itself is a reversion to the earliest Nameless books in which the facts are not hard to discern, and the story stands on its character development. The subject here is the nature of friendship.
Nameless has always been more interested in doing the right thing than in getting into the right income bracket. So when a friend asks him to look into the disappearance of their mutual friend's beautiful granddaughter, Gianna Fornessi, Nameless grumbles . . . but agrees to help. Pretty soon, he's suspicious that something's wrong. Gianna has left the job her grandfather thinks she has, and lives on a spending scale that the former job would not have supported. Meeting her roommate, Ashley Hansen, makes Nameless more suspicious.
The plot complications start soon as Ashley is killed in their apartment. In each complication, another layer of civilization is peeled off of society, leaving Nameless to explore many of the basest human instincts.
In his personal life, the split with Eberhardt that began in Quarry gets worse. On the other hand, his relationship with Kerry Wade improves as Cybil and he are reconciled.
The book's end connects to Nameless's change of character after Shackles. He becomes judge and jury concerning a serious offense.
As I read this book, I was reminded of the dark Raymond Chandler stories about family secrets as well as Chinatown. Epitaphs is a worthy successor to those fine works.
If you have not read Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series and enjoy Pronzini, I would whole-heartedly recommend these books to you. Start with the first in the series and read the first seven or so. They are great up to that point and then start to become redundant.
I would agree with the other reviewer to start with another of Prozini's books.