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The Big Clock (Crime Masterworks)

The Big Clock (Crime Masterworks)

by KennethFearing (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $10.83

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

George Stroud, executive editor at Crimeways magazine, is involved with the wrong woman - his boss's. When Janoth, the boss, kills her in an argument, he tries to pin the crime on a man seen outside her home just before the murder. He assigns his best investigative reporter - Stroud - to find the man. Trouble is, the man was Stroud himself ...An audacious and ironic novel of terror and high tension.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 30 May 2002
ISBN 10: 0752851349
ISBN 13: 9780752851341
Book Overview: #13 in the Crime Masterworks series - a library of the finest crime novels and thrillers ever written 'The Big Clock has it - the deadpan, make-believe sinister quality, and the terse, preposterous fancy. It is, besides, a thriller with a unique plot' - Time 'If you enjoy top-drawer detective fiction ... we can recommend this one with no reservations whatsoever' - New York Times

Author Bio
Regarded early in his career as a significant voice in 20th-century poetry, Kenneth Fearing (1902-61) later became better known for his fiction. Other novels include Dagger of the Mind (1941), Clark Gifford's Body (1942) and The Generous Heart (1954).