A Death in Summer

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His novels have won numerous awards, including the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea . His literary crime novels inspired the major TV series, Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne. He lives in Dublin. Klappentext Now a major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne. When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realise that, rather than the suspected suicide, 'Diamond Dick' has in fact been murdered. Suspicion soon falls on one of Jewell's biggest rivals. But as Quirke and his assistant Sinclair get to know Jewell's beautiful, enigmatic wife Françoise d'Aubigny, and his fragile sister Dannie, as well as those who work for the family, it gradually becomes clear that all is not as it seems . . . Against the backdrop of 1950's Dublin, Benjamin Black conjures another atmospheric, beguiling mystery. The fourth Quirke mystery from John Banville writing as Benjamin Black: now a major TV series starring Gabriel Byrne Zusammenfassung The fourth Quirke Mystery from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now a major television series starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Black, Black Benjamin
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9780330509152
• ISBN: 978-0-330-50915-2
• No. of pages: 327
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Picador; Quirke Mysteries; Quirke Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Dublin, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Ireland, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1950 to c 1959, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, C 1945 To C 1960, FICTION / World Literature / Ireland / 21st Century, Street fiction / urban fiction