One Death to Die: A Kayankaya Mystery - Hardcover

Arjouni, Jakob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880641703 ISBN 13: 9780880641708

Publisher: Fromm Intl, 1997

Synopsis

While investigating the disappearance of Sri Dao, a Thai girl smuggled into Frankfurt for the flourishing sex trade, Kemal Kayankaya, the gritty P.I. with an attitude, uncovers an underworld of illegal aliens, corrupt cops, hustlers, and pimps. IP.

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Review:

Proving that the classic Hammet/Chandler private eye plot can be enriched in even the most exotic setting, Arjouni continues his pungent series about the Turkish-German detective Kemal Kayankaya. Like his creator, Kayankaya is the son of Turkish guest workers, and he gets very little respect from his adopted country. A client, an "average schmuck from Frankfurt's West End" named Weidenbusch, wants Kayankaya to find his missing Thai ladyfriend, who seems to have been kidnapped by gangsters preying on illegal aliens. But Jakob Arjouni, who has learned from the masters how to turn a story inside out until we almost forgot where we started, has plenty of twisty surprises in store. Arjouni's last Kayankaya mystery, And Still Drink More!, is also a good read.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Fromm Intl
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0880641703
• ISBN 13: 9780880641708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 183