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Book synopsis

"Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum is fierce."--The Globe and Mail Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking, smoking, and philosophizing long enough to keep up. Imagine The Big Sleep via Fernando Pessoa, with a side of Buster Keaton. John Goldbach is the author of Selected Blackouts, a collection of stories.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Devil and the Detective
• Author: John Goldbach
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781552452691
• ISBN: 1552452697
• ID: 04807156
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Weight: 226 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. May 2013

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