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Nominated for England's Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 1986, You'd Better Believe It introduced Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur to reader in England and the United States. Harpur's domain is a small seaport city south of London. It's not unusual for the big-town criminals to consider such a spot as easy prey. At such times a policeman must rely keenly upon his colleagues, to be sure, and also upon his retinue of narks (tipsters). This time it's a Lloyd's Bank branch that's the target. When the heist is postponed, a policeman is killed. One nark, then another, is murdered. As Harpur becomes driven to his limit, he must bypass regulations and settle things once and for all with a vicious crook named Holly. But not necessarily on his own terms.
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Praise for Bill James:
British mystery writing's finest prose stylist writes with such verve and originality he transcends what can often be a stale mystery sub-genre to produce novels that are startling, achingly funny and sometimes wholly surreal. Essential reading.
James' Harpur and Iles books are deliciously unsavoury: a brilliant combination of almost Jacobean savagery and sexual betrayl with a tart comedy of contemporary manners. (John Harvey, Guardian.)
Masterly... there is nothing else quite like this series... all delivered in a ferociously poetic voice that is uniquely Bill James. (The Times)
Bill James has long been one of British crime writing's hidden jewels. (Time Out)
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Nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 1986, You'd Better Believe It introduced Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0881508047
- ISBN 13 9780881508048
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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