I'll See You in My Dreams - An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

Zusatztext "A classic . . . . Deverell! one of the finest of Canada's writers! builds his best book ever. . . . There is a great courtroom drama here! something that Deverell excels at! and an even better denouement with a twist nobody will guess. . . . . Superb." -- Margaret Cannon! Globe and Mail "As with many of the great protagonists readers are drawn to in the mystery genre! it is Beauchamp's flaws! and he has many! that make him so interesting." -- Victoria TimesColonist "Deverell's undertone of fury thrums most audibly [concerning] the multi-generational tragedies of Canada's residential schools [but] there's still laughter! though! in Arthur's personal mishaps -- his blunderings in his encounters with women! his rueful observations of himself as an often hapless old man! [plus] delicious nuggets of political gossip." -- Joan Barfoot! Toronto Sun Informationen zum Autor WILLIAM DEVERELL has published some fifteen novels. I'll See You In My Dreams is the fifth in his bestselling Arthur Beauchamp series: the first! Trial of Passion ! won the prestigious Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing and Canada's Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award; the second! April Fool ! also won the Arthur Ellis Award; the third! Kill All the Judges ! was a finalist for the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal; and the fourth! Snow Job ! was a Globe and Mail Best Book. One of the creators of the TV series Street Legal ! Deverell winters in Costa Rica and spends his summers on Pender Island! British Columbia. Klappentext A compelling story that spirals back to Vancouver in the early 60s! when conservative young Arthur encounters not only the beginnings of alternative culture (coffee houses! a scratchy-voiced young busker named Dylan) but the deep and fiercely intelligent rage of a young First Nations man named Gabriel Swift! who will haunt Arthur's life. Finally! Arthur might be able to face the truth of this long-past case! and right an old wrong. IT WAS JUST AFTER THE 1962 EASTER WEEKEND when Beauchamp’s first murder file landed on his desk. Only twenty-five, he was in his fourth year of practice and still regretting his choice of criminal law over pursuit of a doctorate in classical studies. So it was a matter of extreme irony that the case that finally tilted him toward the law involved the death of his respected – nay, idolized – tutor in the Greek and Roman classics, Dermot Mulligan, D.Th., Ph.D.   Let us put this life-shaping event in context. His firm, Tragger, Inglis, Bullingham, was perhaps the most conservative, the most staid of Vancouver’s major law offices, and it regarded its small criminal division almost with embarrassment, its staff as untouchables. This is where Beauchamp toiled, in a windowless office on the fourteenth floor of a West Hastings bank building.   By the spring of that year he had built a creditable record of victories, but only one of note: a dangerous driving charge against the Highways minister, Phil Gaglardi. Many had been cases from the Legal Aid Society, earning a paltry thirty-five-dollar per diem. Occasionally, to the disapproval of his seniors, he would even act pro bono – a beggar, a vagrant, a street drunk. He was a pushover for the sad stories of the oppressed.   Earlier that year he’d finally escaped from the stifling oppression of his parental home on University Hill, to a West End bachelor flat. One might often see him having a fifty-cent breakfast in one of the busy diners on Denman Street, or on lonely walks by English Bay: gangly at six foot three (friends called him Stretch), hair clipped short, sombre of expression, his lugubrious eyes and heroic nose combining to give an impression of craggy world-weariness. Picture him on a chill and misty April morning in Tragger, Inglis’s requisite uniform – overcoat, hat, dark suit, black shoes – s...

Product details

• Authors: William Deverell
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2012
• EAN: 9780771027185
• ISBN: 978-0-7710-2718-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 28 mm