| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Akashic noir series |
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Akashic noir series.
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| Contents |
Backgammon / Desmond Barry -- Loaded / Ken Bruen -- Rigor Mortis / Stewart Home -- Maida Hell / Barry Adamson -- I fought the lawyer / Michael Ward -- I hate his fingers / Sylvie Simmons -- Park rites / Dan Bennett -- Trouble is an lonesome town / Cathi Unsworth -- Chelsea three, Scotland Yard nil / Max Décharné -- Love / Martin Waites -- Sic Transit Gloria Mundi / Joolz Denby -- New rose / John Williams -- Penguin Island / Jerry Sykes -- She'll ride a white horse / Mark Pilkington -- South / Joe McNally -- Who do you know in heaven? / Patrick McCabe -- Betamax / Ken Hollings. |
| Summary |
"Serpent's Tail novelist Unsworth shocks and awes with help from her London criminal-literary colleagues. Brand-new stories from Desmond Barry, Ken Bruen, Stewart Home, Barry Adamson, Michael Ward, Sylvie Simmons, Daniel Bennett, Cathi Unsworth, Max Decharne, Martyn Waites, Joolz Denby, John Williams, Jerry Sykes, Mark Pilkington, Joe McNally, Patrick McCabe, and Ken Hollings. That London has survived so long comes down to its foundation in the root of all evil. The river, as the Romans knew, meant the riches of the world could be shipped directly to its ravenous mouth. London has controlled the world for many of the years of its existence. London is the Grand Wizard. It's no coincidence that Ken Hollings writes a future projection for the city from the gleaming towers of Canary Wharf, the monument to capitalism laid down on the ashes of the working class East End by the Wicked Witch of Westminster, Margaret Thatcher ... So this is not really a collection of crime stories. This is a compass for the reader to chart their own path through the dark streets of London, to take whatever part chimes most closely with their soul and use it as a talisman."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
London (England) -- Fiction.
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English fiction -- England -- London.
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Noir fiction, English.
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Detective and mystery stories, English.
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FICTION -- General.
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Detective and mystery stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00891515
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English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
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Noir fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst01739570
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Noir fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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| Added Author |
Unsworth, Cathi.
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| ISBN |
9781936070367 (electronic bk.) |
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1936070367 (electronic bk.) |
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