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Val McDermid A Suitable Job for a Woman: Inside the World of Private Eyes
Poisoned Pen Press 1999 1890208159 / 9781890208158 Paperback New
Brand New, Paperback, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases, edge has a small spot “But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid. ” When Raymond Chandler wrote these words in his classic The Simple Art of Murder, he drew a blueprint for the male private eyes who descend from Philip Marlowe to populate the world of crime fiction. But what if the private eye is a woman? And what if she is not a character in a novel but a real, working investigator testing not only the meanness but the absurdity of life on seamy streets? Who will tell her story? Enter Manchester’s Val McDermid, herself a skilled writer of the P. I. Novel but for years a professional journalist. In an effort to plumb the real world of working women—and throw new light on her own craft—she has interviewed women private eyes from both sides of the Atlantic and assembled their stories with an eye for the absurd and a keen grasp of the gritty nuts and bo... B17057P
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Val McDermid Wire in the Blood, The
Penguin Books 1999 0140275487 / 9780140275483 Mass Market Paperback New
Brand New, Paperback, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases "Young girls are disappearing around the country, and there is nothing to connect them to one another, let alone the killer whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind.Nobody gets inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up a national Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of missing teenagers and asked to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer, Shaz Bowman, comes up with a concrete theory — a theory that is ridiculed by the group...until one of their number is murdered and mutilated". A2799
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