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LocationOakland
Call NoF MUR
TitleAn honest living / Dwyer Murphy.
AuthorMurphy, Dwyer, author.
Barcode527824
CollectionFiction
Summary"A sharp and stylish debut from the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it. After leaving behind the comforts and the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney makes ends meet in mid-2000s Brooklyn by picking up odd jobs from a colorful assortment of clients. When a mysterious woman named Anna Reddick turns up at his apartment with ten thousand dollars in cash and asks him to track down her missing husband Newton, an antiquarian bookseller who she believes has been pilfering rare true crime volumes from her collection, he trusts it will be a quickand easy case. But when the real Anna Reddick-a magnetic but unpredictable literary prodigy-lands on his doorstep with a few bones to pick, he finds himself out of his depth, drawn into a series of deceptions involving Joseph Conrad novels, unscrupulousbooksellers, aspiring flAaneurs, and seedy real estate developers. Set against the backdrop of New York at the tail end of the analog era and immersed in the worlds of literature and bookselling, An Honest Living is a gripping story of artistic ambition,obsession, and the small crimes we commit against one another every day"-- Provided by publisher.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593489246 26.00
International Standard Book Number 0593489241 26.00
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6 23/eng/20211222
Personal Name Murphy, Dwyer, author.
Title Statement An honest living / Dwyer Murphy.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Viking, [2022]
Physical Description 278 p. Hardcover 22 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "A sharp and stylish debut from the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it. After leaving behind the comforts and the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney makes ends meet in mid-2000s Brooklyn by picking up odd jobs from a colorful assortment of clients. When a mysterious woman named Anna Reddick turns up at his apartment with ten thousand dollars in cash and asks him to track down her missing husband Newton, an antiquarian bookseller who she believes has been pilfering rare true crime volumes from her collection, he trusts it will be a quickand easy case. But when the real Anna Reddick-a magnetic but unpredictable literary prodigy-lands on his doorstep with a few bones to pick, he finds himself out of his depth, drawn into a series of deceptions involving Joseph Conrad novels, unscrupulousbooksellers, aspiring flAaneurs, and seedy real estate developers. Set against the backdrop of New York at the tail end of the analog era and immersed in the worlds of literature and bookselling, An Honest Living is a gripping story of artistic ambition,obsession, and the small crimes we commit against one another every day"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Private Investigator. Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Noir Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Novels. Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Noir fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft
Additional Physical Form Entry Murphy, Dwyer. Honest living New York : Viking, [2022] 9780593489253 (DLC) 2021054808
Additional Physical Form Entry Online version: