The Syracuse Codex

FE/FP Signed by Nisbet on the title page. As new hardcover in similar dust jacket, now wrapped in Brodart. Nisbet's writing used the conventions of crime fiction and noir to support a dark, cerebral, and harrowing narrative, laced with humor and carried off in unexpected directions by exuberant wordplay. He incorporated themes as wide-ranging as sailing, particle physics, mathematics, ancient Rome, modern jazz, and urban subculture.San Francisco frame maker Danny Kestrel regularly rubs elbows with the rich and immoral at art openings and commissions. But he's never dreamt of entering their lurid world until Renée Knowles--interior decorator, billionaire's wife, nymphomaniac--asks for a ride.When Knowles is murdered soon after their one-night stand, Danny finds himself a prime suspect 144 pages.