The Crime of the Century

Kingsley Amis

ISBN 10: 0091738075 / ISBN 13: 9780091738075

Published by Hutchinson, London, 1989

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Second impression. 8vo. Pp. ix, 141. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; decorated end-papers. Introduced by the author with an Alternative Solution by Howard Martin. Reprint of the first case-bound edition, originally published in paperback in 1987 by J. M. Dent & Sons in its Dent Mastercrime series. A string of murders of young women in a London park draws Detective Bill Barry out of retirement. A detective story strewn with red herrings, first published in six episodes in The Sunday Times between 13th of July and 28th of September 1975. Readers were invited to offer solutions to the mystery, with the winning entry published for the first time in book form along-side the author's (completely different) denouement. 289. Seller Inventory # CKU 743

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Crime of the Century

Publisher: Hutchinson, London

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine

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Synopsis:

When a series of murders performed by a killer with a peculiarly thin blade take place in London, Detective Superintendent Bill Barry is recalled from retirement. Doctors, psychologists, lawyers and politicians join in the hunt, but the biggest crime is yet to come. First published as a six-part serial in "The Sunday Times" newspaper in 1975, readers were encouraged to send in their own solutions to the mystery after episode five. For the first time, the winning entry is published here in book form, together with Amis' own denouement. Kingsley Amis is also the author of "Jake's Thing", "Stanley and the Woman", "The Old Devils" and "Difficulties with Girls".