Lush Life: An Artie Deemer Mystery (31 page)

DALLAS MURPHY is the author of
Lover Man
, a
New York Times Book Review
Notable Book of the Year (1987), which was also selected as one of the Year’s Best by
Publishers Weekly
and nominated for a coveted Edgar Award. His second novel,
Apparent Wind
, was hailed by
The New York Times Book Review
as “a flamboyant comic nightmare…There is fun here, but also real fury in Mr. Murphy’s raging imagination.” Dallas Murphy grew up in south Florida and now lives in New York City.