How the Dead Live - Couverture souple

Raymond, Derek

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0751508039 ISBN 13 : 9780751508031

Editeur : Time Warner Paperbacks, 1993

Synopsis

The third of the "Factory" series of bleak, atmospheric and subversive crime novels. The nameless detective working in the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met is sent to Wiltshire, where the local police are reluctant to investigate the strange disappearance of a popular local woman.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Can you murder for love?

In the third novel of Derek Raymond's acclaimed Factory Series, the nameless detective visits a decrepit country house to look into the case of a disappeared woman.

It is, as always for the Detective Sergeant, a deeply unsettling investigation of love and damnation. The woman's husband seems to love her entirely. And yet he seems reluctant to find her, preferring to hide in a house that resembles the set of a horror film. Meanwhile other cops are getting in the way of the Sergeant and he's making new enemies on the force.

With growing desperation and his trademark sense of enraged compassion, the Sergeant fights to uncover a murderer not by following analytical procedure, but by doing the most idfficult thing of all: understanding why crimes are committed.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Time Warner Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0751508039
• ISBN 13: 9780751508031
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible