{"editions": [{"subtitle": "the Harry Fannin detective novels", "links": [{"url": "http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2006030690-d.html", "title": "Publisher description"}], "covers": [6785216], "description": "Set in the 1960s, these hard boiled detective stories are intricately plotted & rife with wisecracks, evoking the work of Chandler. David Markson wrote just two Harry Fannin novels before acclaim as a novelist led him to a higher plane.", "source_records": ["ia:epitaphfortrampe00mark", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run03.mrc:179868467:1919", "bwb:9781593761349", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.10.20150123.full.mrc:133849373:1071", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_018.bib.mrc:310702774:2440"], "title": "Epitaph for a tramp & Epitaph for a dead beat", "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["Private investigators", "Murder", "Fiction"], "publish_country": "cau", "by_statement": "David Markson", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "other_titles": ["Epitaph for a tramp and Epitaph for a dead beat", "Epitaph for a dead beat."], "publishers": ["Shoemaker & Hoard", "Distributed by Publishers Group West"], "ia_box_id": ["IA138406"], "table_of_contents": [{"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Epitaph for a tramp - Epitaph for a dead beat.", "pagenum": ""}], "full_title": "Epitaph for a tramp & Epitaph for a dead beat the Harry Fannin detective novels", "key": "/books/OL24727495M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL61721A"}], "publish_places": ["Emeryville, CA"], "pagination": "377 p. ;", "notes": "Epitaph for a tramp originally published: New York : Dell, 1959. Epitaph for a dead beat originally published: New York : Dell, 1961.", "number_of_pages": 377, "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223074581456"], "publish_date": "2007", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL15816520W"}], "identifiers": {}, "ocaid": "epitaphfortrampe00mark", "isbn_10": ["1593761341"], "isbn_13": ["9781593761349"], "lccn": ["2006030690"], "oclc_numbers": ["71369268"], "classifications": {}, "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.54"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3563.A67 E75 2007", "PS3563.A67E75 2007"], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2011-06-30T21:24:53.527988"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-14T04:18:38.905165"}}], "works": [{"title": "Forever Amber", "covers": [12958803, 14963428, 14963432], "subject_places": ["Great Britain", "England", "Mistresses", "Grande-Bretagne"], "subjects": ["collectionID:Sbodice_ripper", "collectionID:Sleazy_pulp", "Mistresses", "Kings and rulers", "Histoire", "England", "Fiction in English", "Fiction", "Great Britain", "History", "Women", "Fiction, historical", "London (england), fiction", "Fiction, historical, general", "Romans, nouvelles", "Femmes", "Rois et souverains", "Ma\u00eetresses", "Historical Romance", "Nobility", "Biography", "Exiles", "Man-woman relationships", "American fiction", "Relations entre hommes et femmes", "Roman am\u00e9ricain"], "key": "/works/OL100278W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL32283A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["Charles II, 1660-1685", "1660-1685 (Charles II)"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England\u2014that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. From whores and highwaymen to courtiers and noblemen, from events such as the Great Plague and the Fire of London to the intimate passions of ordinary\u2014and extraordinary\u2014men and women, Amber experiences it all. But throughout her trials and escapades, she remains, in her heart, true to the one man she really loves, the one man she can never have. Frequently compared to Gone with the Wind, Forever Amber is the other great historical romance, outselling every other American novel of the 1940s\u2014despite being banned in Boston for its sheer sexiness. A book to read and reread, this edition brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece.", "identifiers": {"wikidata": ["Q1646002"], "librarything": ["41021"]}, "latest_revision": 32, "revision": 32, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T17:59:12.548417"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-19T15:13:14.067933"}}], "authors": []}