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The Death of the Detective : A Novel by Mark Smith (2007, Perfect)

A madman is on the loose in the city. Alone and on the verge of psychic collapse, detective Arnold Magnuson follows clues in murder's wake--through the Chicago of society clubs and nightclubs and the city of small-time hoods and big-time Mafia, the slums smelling of machine oil and riverside tanneries and pristine lakeside villages--through subtle interrogations, split-second lies, and improvised stories, moving ever closer to a culprit who begins to feel alarmingly like himself.

Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.M53766d43
Reviews
"Remarkable for both its ambition and its accomplishment, [it] reads as though it were written by a resurrected Charles Dickens, one chilled by a hundred years of graveyard brooding. . .every page is a pleasure to read." -- New York Times Book Review, " The Death of the Detective is not only about Chicago, it is Chicago. . . . With this one enormous book Mark Smith has emerged as one of the most ambitious, original, and thought-provoking novelists writing today." -- Chicago Daily News
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-046939
Dewey Decimal
812/.54
Dewey Edition
22

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