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When Fred Travis, leader of the Repeal 98 movement, turns up with his throat cut clutching Private Eye Dave Cunane's card between his fingers, things turn nasty for the Manchester detective. Furthermore, various crazies emerge from the Manchester hinterland, who tend to use direct methods.
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In his last outing The Reluctant Investigator, Lean's Manchester private eye, Dave Cunane, was framed as a serial killer, landed with a dodgy paternity suit and nearly dissected and burned alive. He starts the new book in retirement, teaching management at a local university; his card turns up in the hand of a murdered politician and he finds himself on the wrong side of an influential charismatic cult. Cunane is not so much an investigator as an attitude, waiting for someone to rub him up the wrong way; this is pretty much standard Chandlerian territory with enough commonsense modernity to it to go down smooth. What is perhaps most especially interesting about this series is the extent to which the feud between Cunane and the local police force is largely a matter of disappointed love; his retired father was Chief Superintendent and his disciples, like the devious Sinclair, have never understood why his son did not follow in his footsteps. Lean's novels have laddish wit going for them, but also a preparedness to follow through savagely on the logic of a situation; like its predecessor, this never abandons a light touch, but has moments of imaginative grimness. --Roz Kaveney
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It's hard enough persuading the police he had nothing to do with the murder, but when they arrest Clint Lane, the one person Dave knows couldn't have done it, he's forced to look for the real killer.
His investigations lead him to a local pop star, a controversial cult leader, and the wife of a senior police officer. And as Dave digs deeper, the patterns surrounding the murder get more and more complex until he no longer knows who or what to believe...
His investigations lead him to a local pop star, a controversial cult leader, and the wife of a senior police officer. And as Dave digs deeper, the patterns surrounding the murder get more and more complex until he no longer knows who or what to believe...
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0434004502
- ISBN 13 9780434004508
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: LIKE NEW. 1999. Heinemann. First. Fine. Dj- VG. Bold gilt lettering on spine. 406pp. 652g. This is a murder story, with the involvement of the underworld in Manchester. Fred Travis woke up every morning with one wish. It was the same every morning. He wanted to turn on the radio and hear that the permissive society had been repealed, but when he is found with his throat cut, things begin to turn nasty. Seller Inventory # 30120
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