The Dying of the Light: A Mystery - Hardcover

Dibdin, Michael

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9780679430759: The Dying of the Light: A Mystery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067943075X ISBN 13: 9780679430759

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1994

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At Eventide Lodge, an old-age home run by two tyrannical sisters, a murderer hides among a cast of assorted characters: a retired colonel, a playboy, a wealthy invalid, and a Jewish financier. 15,000 first printing.

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"Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader. He writes the unmentionable calmly and with devastating effect."--Ruth Rendell"Horribly, monstrously funny . . . a merry and maddening jeu d'esprit."--The Independent on Sunday"An elegant novel."--Boston Globe"As appealing as it is inventive."--The Sunday Times

About the Author:

Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.

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