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How the Dead Live (Five Star Paperback): Factory 3

How the Dead Live (Five Star Paperback): Factory 3

by Derek Raymond (Author), Derek Raymond (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

This, the third novel in the Factory Series, sees Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife. How The Dead Live is a haunting, fantastical novel, with a hellish country house at its centre; a mystery with little interest in the mystery, a police procedural with almost no procedure. Instead, and as ever with Raymond, it's a brilliantly unsettling investigation into love and damnation. This is life seen from the very bottom of the bottle - a fitting succesor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 13 Sep 2007
ISBN 10: 1852427981
ISBN 13: 9781852427986
Book Overview: The third novel in Derek Raymond's Factory detective crime series

Media Reviews
?A sulphurous mixture of ferocious violence and high-flown philosophy? Prospect
Cook makes us see, that while we may cavort in the sunny uplands of life, the shades are always among us, flitting back and forth, seemingly without purpose, and yet slowly, insidiously, relentlessly, herding us towards the grave. * Will Self *
Author Bio
Derek Raymond was born Robin Cook in 1931. His novels include A State of Denmark, The Crust on its Uppers, I Was Dora Suarez and How the Dead Live, which was made into a film. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton aged sixteen and spent much of his early career among criminals and was employed at various times as a pornographer, organiser of illegal gambling, money launderer, pig-slaughterer and minicab driver. He died in London in 1994.