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Seller: Linda Corrigan, Knutsford, United KingdomLinda Corrigan
AbeBooks seller since February 24, 2003
Condition: Used - Very good
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A very good copy of this crime fiction novel in the Harpur & Iles series. Dust Jacket: pictorial, laminated with photo of a face and white and yellow lettering to both front and spine and white lettering (critical acclaim for Bill James) to rear, all on black ground; not price clipped; blurb to front flap and biography and photo of author to rear flap; also on black ground; in very good condition, just the slightest signs of shelf wear (now protected). Cover: black cloth with gilt lettering to spine; in very good condition, little or no sign of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound, small, very neat, inscription ('gift from publisher') to front free end paper. 282 pp.
Seller Inventory # 002004
- Title
- Panicking Ralph
- Author
- James, Bill
- Publisher
- Macmillan, London
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0333670604
- ISBN 13
- 9780333670606
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
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From the Author
They are two high-ranking police officers. Harpur, the main figure by a whisker, is a detective chief superintendent, and Iles, his boss, an Assistant Chief Constable. In an unnamed English city, they fight organised crime - mainly drug dealing - through their own, not always wholly legal methods. In particular, Iles's unspoken work philosophy is 'the end justifies the means'. He is believed to have murdered two villains who got off in court after killing an undercover detective (see HALO PARADE). This episode constantly recurs in his thinking (see IN GOOD HANDS and ETON CROP) Neither he nor Harpur is on the take, but they'll do almost anthing to put away some of those they believe crooked (and whom the reader knows are crooked): only some - Iles runs alliances with a few Mr Bigs for the sake of peace on the street, to the nattering despair of his Chief. Harpus does try to control Iles's savagery now and then, without notable success. Harpur's moral authority over Iles is flimsy, not just because he is lower in rank, but because he has had an affair with Iles's wife, and Iles knows it.
My aim in these books is to humanise as much as I can both crooks and cops: that is, to give them full characterisation, not put them in roles as representatives of evil and good. This can bring them very close on the ethical scale and, I hope, produces good suspense and, above all, much not necessarily comfortable laughter. The reviewers who please me most find the books not only taut but funny.
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Linda Corrigan
Knutsford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since February 24, 2003
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