The Eighth Circle: No.35 - Brossura

Ellin, Stanley

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0752853317 ISBN 13: 9780752853314

Casa editrice: Orion, 2004

Riassunto

Murray Kirk runs his private investigation agency like the business it is: he isn't interested in justice or crusades, just the profit and loss account. When he's asked to act for a young policeman accused of bribery, because he knows something about police corruption in New York City, he isn't too keen. He just can't see the profit - until he meets the man's fiancée. And then Kirk's motives become uncomfortably confused, and he finds himself descending swiftly into a grey world of bookmakers, gangsters, grafters and corrupt politicians, a world where setting up an honest cop is all in a day's work ...

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Recensione:

This is the thirty-fifth in Orion's excellent Crime Masterworks series of past classics. The Eighth Circle is more than worthy of inclusion. (DAILY EXPRESS)

Descrizione del libro:

'Ellin is clear, dark and chilling ... one of the few writers who has something to say to hard-boiled fans as well as classicists' Dilys Winn

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0752853317
• ISBN 13: 9780752853314
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304