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This, the third novel in the Factory Series, sees Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife. How The Dead Live is a haunting, fantastical novel, with a hellish country house at its centre; a mystery with little interest in the mystery, a police procedural with almost no procedure. Instead, and as ever with Raymond, it's a brilliantly unsettling investigation into love and damnation. This is life seen from the very bottom of the bottle - a fitting succesor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis.
Biographie de l'auteur
Derek Raymond was born Robin Cook in 1931. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton aged sixteen and spent much of his early career among criminals. The Factory series followed his early novels, The Crust on Its Uppers and A State of Denmark. His literary memoir The Hidden Files was published in 1992. He died in London in 1994.
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How the Dead Live (The Factory series)
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Ballantine Books, 1988
ISBN 10 : 0345346726
ISBN 13 : 9780345346728
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Paperback. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G0345346726I5N00
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How the Dead Live
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Available Press, 1988
ISBN 10 : 0345346726
ISBN 13 : 9780345346728
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paperback. Etat : Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1988. March 1988. Available Press. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0345346726. 215 pages. paperback. Cover design by Bill Toth. Cover photo by Bill Brandt. keywords: Mystery England Literature. DESCRIPTION - THE FACTORY SERIES Book Three - In the three novels that comprise the Factory Series, (which began with HE DIED WITH HIS EYES OPEN and THE DEVILS HOME ON LEAVE), Derek Raymond has created one of the most extraordinary detective-narrators in crime fiction - a nameless loner whose cynicism and sharp tongue (his words fly as fast as his fists) have made him enemies on both sides of the law. His unpopularity with his colleagues on London's Metropolitan Police Force has relegated him to working, probably for the rest of his career, in the backwater Department of Unexplained Deaths, investigating the sordid murders of people no one cared about when they were alive. The New York Times Book Review praised HE DIED WITH HIS EYES OPEN, the first in the series, as 'beautifully written. Mr. Raymond is a master of the sharp vignette, the telling phrase. All of the people in his book are vividly alive.' THE DEPARTMENT OF UNEXPLAINED DEATHS. In HOW THE DEAD LIVE, the County Chief Constable wants the Yard's help in investigating the disappearance of a dearly loved, French-born Lady of the Manor, whose husband seems reluctant to find her. None of our hem's superiors and rivals are interested either, so the case goes to Unexplained Deaths, and he finds himself crawling through the pubs and gambling dens of the country community of Thornhill, uncovering an unsavory cast of characters that makes even a seasoned pro like himself wish he'd left this case alone. Derek Raymond was born in London but has lived abroad for many years in such places as Morocco, Italy, Turkey, and the United States. For the past eight years, he has lived in rural France where, as a relaxation from writing, he occasionally works in the local vineyards. HE DIED WITH HIS EYES OPEN has just been made into a film starring Charlotte Rampling and Michel Serrault. inventory #9699. N° de réf. du vendeur z9699
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