THE ICE HARVEST [SIGNED]

Tucson, Arizona: Dennis McMillan Publications. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Width: 6.5" Height: 9.5"; 158 pages; Condition / Notes: This is a scarce author-signed limited first edition. Volume is bound in quarter leather with marbled boards, with bright gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket and slipcase are in FINE condition. Boldly numbered and signed by author on limitation page. Scott Phillips is an American writer of crime fiction in the noir tradition. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and lived for several years in France, working as a translator and photographer; then in California as a screenwriter, co-writing a 1996 straight-to-video thriller called "Crosscut." His first novel, "The Ice Harvest," was published in 2000, and won the California Book Award, as well as being nominated for the Edgar Award and Hammett Prize, and shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. A black comic noir thriller set in the low-rent world of sleazy Wichita strip clubs on Christmas Eve 1979, "The Ice Harvest" was adapted into a film of the same title in 2005. He followed this in 2002 with "The Walkaway," a prequel set largely in Wichita during the 1940s. His third novel, "Cottonwood," set in Kansas and California during the Western era, was published in 2003.; Signed by Author .