Midnight Promise |
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Author:
| Lovitt, Zane Rinaldi, Patrizia |
ISBN: | 978-1-322-44293-8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Publisher: | Europa Editions, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $12.99 |
Book Description:
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A literary detective story ingeniously told in ten cases. John Dorn is a classic gumshoe. His woman has left him, he lives in his office, and he drinks too much. His one friend, a lawyer named Demetri, hands Dorn an infinite supply of hopeless cases and lost causes, to which Dorn, ever the champion of the underdog and the oppressed, is drawn to "as a sledgehammer is to a kneecap." A superlative work of hardboiled literary detective fiction, "The Midnight Promise" wonderfully evokes the...
More DescriptionA literary detective story ingeniously told in ten cases. John Dorn is a classic gumshoe. His woman has left him, he lives in his office, and he drinks too much. His one friend, a lawyer named Demetri, hands Dorn an infinite supply of hopeless cases and lost causes, to which Dorn, ever the champion of the underdog and the oppressed, is drawn to "as a sledgehammer is to a kneecap." A superlative work of hardboiled literary detective fiction, "The Midnight Promise" wonderfully evokes the underbelly of contemporary Melbourne, its battlers, its hard men, its victims, and its ill-fated heroes.