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Richard Hawke has not yet even reached his fifth birthday. Prior to the publication of Speak of the Devil in 2006, the writer known as known as Richard Hawke did not even exist.

But his doppelganger did.

Before Hawke, there was Tim Cockey, born back in the middle of the last century in the very large village of Baltimore, MD. Baltimore bards feature prominently among Tim's early literary influences, even including crib-side exposure to the doggerel of the city's own Ogden Nash. As Tim began leaning earnestly into his pen (the lean years), the voices of numerous other local scribes (Poe, Mencken, John Barth, Anne Tyler...) sounded strongly, and Tim readily fell under their influence. It's dark...it's light...it's comic...it's not.

Determined to realize his dream of one day doing his day job barefoot and in sweatpants, Tim eventually took up residence in the city with the enormous pulse,—New York City, It was several years into this residency that the urge took hold to steer in the direction of crime fiction. Careening down memory lane, he produced a wit-drenched series of Baltimore-based mysteries (five in all), which have come to be known as 'the Hearse novels.'

In the grand tradition of cool-sounding pen names, Richard Hawke appeared on the scene in 2006, soon after the publication of the fifth hearse book. Turning his attention now to Gotham, Hawke went where no Tim Cockey had gone before. His aim was to capture the adrenaline, the mystery, and the rich palette of characters that inhabit the city where everyone has a story to tell as well as a stupendously unique voice with which to tell it.

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Hawke, Richard - Cold Day in Hell (Signed, 1st)

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Author Signed Hardcover. 2007 NY: Random House First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dustjacket, signed by the author. Each dust jacket is protected in an acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

Hawke, Richard - House of Secrets (Signed, 1st)

Hawke, Richard - House of Secrets (Signed, 1st)

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Author Signed Hardcover. May 2010 NY: Random House First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dustjacket, signed by the author. Each dust jacket is protected in an acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

Hawke, Richard - Speak of the Devil (Signed, 1st)

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Author Signed Hardcover. 2005 NY: Random House First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread, flawless dustjacket, signed by author. Each dust jacket is protected in an acid-free archival quality acetate cover.