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Duffy Dan Kavanagh

Duffy By Dan Kavanagh

Duffy by Dan Kavanagh


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Summary

The first novel in a darkly humorous London-based crime series featuring bisexual private detective Duffy. An eighties classic for a new generation.

Duffy Summary

Duffy by Dan Kavanagh

Things aren't going so well for Brian McKechnie. His wife was attacked in their home, his cat was brutally killed and now a man with a suspiciously erratic accent is blackmailing him. When the police fail spectacularly at finding out who's after him, McKechnie engages the services of London's most unusual private eye.

Duffy is a detective like no other. A bisexual ex-policeman with a phobia of ticking watches and a penchant for Tupperware. But what he lacks in orthodoxy he makes up for in street-smart savvy and no-nonsense dealings. Intrigued by McKechnie's dilemma and the apparent incompetency of his ex-colleagues, Duffy heads to his old patch, the seedy underbelly of Soho, to begin inquiries of his own.

Helped by some shady characters from his past, Duffy discover that while things have changed in the years since he was working the area, the streets are still mean and the crooks walk arm in arm with the blues.

Full to bursting with sex, violence and dodgy dealings, DUFFY is a gripping and entertaining crime novel with a distinctly different and entirely lovable anti-hero.

Duffy Reviews

Duffy is a wonderfully appealing character who could never be anything but the creation of a top-flight imagination. * DAILY MAIL *
Funny, sleazy, fast-paced and written with brio * GUARDIAN *
Barnes takes Duffy into the dark underbelly of Soho, with his customary wit. * CATHOLIC HERALD *
It is bleak, but it is good. Really good. -- Scott Pack * ME AND MY BIG MOUTH *
Duffy is not your typical detective - and this is not your typical detective novel. It's gripping, witty and sometimes horrible and hysterical at the same time...Julian Barnes's foray into the crime genre is an absolute riot - and the good news is there are three more reissues featuring Nick Duffy to look forward to over the next 12 months. * CRIME FICTION LOVER *
There is plenty of goodwill for his witty books featuring his bisexual sleuth, even though the lashing of sex and violence are a world away from Barnes' customary endeavors. * INDEPENDENT *
Treat yourself. One of the most colourful and entertaining English thrillers * EVENING STANDARD *
The laughs are as many as the gasps * FINANCIAL TIMES *

About Dan Kavanagh

Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946. Having devoted his adolescence to truancy, venery and petty theft, he left home at 17 and signed on as a deckhand on a Liberian tanker. After jumping ship at Montevideo, he roamed across the Americas taking a variety of jobs: he was a steer-wrestler, a waiter-on-roller-skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He is currently working in London at jobs he declines to specify, and lives in north Islington.

Additional information

GOR005619872
9781409150176
1409150178
Duffy by Dan Kavanagh
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
20140410
208
N/A
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