Patrick's Alphabet

Informationen zum Autor Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published eight collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. His Selected Poems was published in 2016. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world, and he is an award-winning broadcaster and dramatist. He is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, his Quartet for the End of Time: On Music, Grief and Birdsong was published in 2025. Klappentext When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. The letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene and is soon followed, around town, by the other letters of the alphabet, each immaculately painted in red. Zusammenfassung When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. The letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene and is soon followed, around town, by the other letters of the alphabet, each immaculately painted in red.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Symmon Roberts, Michael Symmons Roberts, Michael Symmons Roberts
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2007
• EAN: 9780099483786
• ISBN: 978-0-09-948378-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary