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How the Dead Live

3.9/5 ( ratings)

This, the third novel in the Factory Series, sees Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife. How The Dead Live is a haunting, fantastical novel, with a hellish country house at its centre; a mystery with little interest in the mystery, a police procedural with almost no procedure. Instead, and as ever with Raymond, it's a brilliantly unsettling investigation into love and damnation. This is life seen from the very bottom of the bottle - a fitting succesor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Serpent's Tail

Release: September 13, 2007

ISBN: 1852427981

ISBN 13: 9781852427986

How the Dead Live

3.9/5 ( ratings)

This, the third novel in the Factory Series, sees Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife. How The Dead Live is a haunting, fantastical novel, with a hellish country house at its centre; a mystery with little interest in the mystery, a police procedural with almost no procedure. Instead, and as ever with Raymond, it's a brilliantly unsettling investigation into love and damnation. This is life seen from the very bottom of the bottle - a fitting succesor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Serpent's Tail

Release: September 13, 2007

ISBN: 1852427981

ISBN 13: 9781852427986

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