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Banville, John (as Black, Benjamin) | Death in Summer, A | Signed First Edition UK Copy
Death in Summer, A | Banville, John (as Black, Benjamin) | Signed First Edition UK Book


 
A DEATH IN SUMMER by Benjamin Black
AUTHOR AUTOGRAPHED UK HARDCOVER BOOK


First UK edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust jacket, signed by the author. 2011 LON: Mantle ISBN 9780330509091
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Death in Summer, A
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A DEATH IN SUMMER by Benjamin Black - SIGNED FIRST EDITION UK BOOK


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One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent end— and an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers his most gripping novel yet

On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell—known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick—is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite.

Jewell's coolly elegant French wife, Françoise, seems less than shocked by her husband's death. But Dannie, Jewell's high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is surprised to learn that in her grief she has turned to an unexpected friend: David Sinclair, Quirke's ambitious assistant in the pathology lab at the Hospital of the Holy Family. Further, Sinclair has been seeing Quirke's fractious daughter Phoebe, and an unlikely romance is blossoming between the two. As a record heat wave envelops the city and the secret deals underpinning Diamond Dick's empire begin to be revealed, Quirke and Hackett find themselves caught up in a dark web of intrigue and violence that threatens to end in disaster.

Tightly plotted and gorgeously written, A Death in Summer proves to the brilliant but sometimes reckless Quirke that in a city where old money and the right bloodlines rule, he is by no means safe from mortal danger.
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