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When a woman disappears and her husband seems reluctant to find her, the case filters down to the Department of Unexplained Deaths, where one cop takes the case and finds himself on London's seamy South Side
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Derek Raymond was born Robin Cook in 1931. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of public school 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. He died in London in 1994. Will Self is an author, media commentator and journalist. He 'borrowed' the title, How the Dead Live, from Derek Raymond for his 2000 novel. His latest novel is The Book of Dave.
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Starred Review. First published in the U.K. in 1986, this powerful and mesmerizing novel should gain new U.S. fans for Raymond (1931–1994), known in Europe as one of the masters of British noir. The unnamed narrator, a dogged Scotland Yarder with a gift for antagonizing his superiors, travels to Wiltshire to resolve a bizarre missing-persons case. Though Marianne Mardy, a popular local figure, hasn't been seen for some time, her physician husband, William, hasn't reported her missing. The police are strangely uninterested in making any effort to locate the woman, and the narrator soon uncovers evidence of official corruption. After an initial interview with William, who lives a reclusive existence in a massive, crumbling mansion, the detective gets a glimmer of what really happened to Mrs. Mardy, only to find himself struggling to reconcile the truth with what his personal sense of justice requires. With spare, often lyrical prose, Raymond digs beneath society's civilized veneer to expose the inner rot. (May)
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0345346726
- ISBN 13 9780345346728
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages215
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Book Description paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. 1st 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. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. Seller Inventory # z9699
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