Crimes in Southern Indiana (2011) Signed First Edition Reference

Crimes in Southern Indiana arrived in 2011 like a detonation. Frank Bill’s debut story collection presents rural Indiana as a place where methamphetamine has replaced the manufacturing economy, where violence is the default response to every problem, and where the line between predator and prey is measured in ammunition. The stories are short, brutal, and written in a prose style that owes more to heavy metal than to literary fiction.

First Edition Identification

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York Publication date: 2011 Format: Hardcover in dust jacket

An FSG publication gives the book literary credibility that its subject matter might not immediately suggest.

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition, fine/fine: $40–$100
• Unsigned first edition: $10–$20

The debut collection established Bill as the most extreme voice in country noir. Collectors of the genre consider it essential — the logical endpoint of a tradition that begins with Woodrell and runs through Pollock and Joy.