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Shamus Dust
Janet Roger
其他書名
Hard Winter. Cold War. Cool Murder.
出版Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2019-10-28
主題Fiction / Mystery & Detective / HistoricalFiction / Mystery & Detective / General
ISBN183859986X9781838599867
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=52O5DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man’s head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn’t hear.

It’s 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City of London, where Pandora’s Box just got opened in the ruins, City Police has a vice killing on its hands, and a spooked councilor hires a shamus to help spare his blushes. Like the Buddha says, everything is connected. So it all can be explained. But that’s a little cryptic when you happen to be the shamus, and you’re standing over a corpse.

"Elegant and spare but still cloaks itself in a terrific atmosphere. I liked the backstreet whores and the tipster barbers; the gold-leaf dining rooms and the tenement bedrooms. For me, it rang of Chandler - a grey-skied, British 'Big Sleep'." -ATLANTIC BOOKS