I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia
'A fascinating snapshot of Vienna between the wars, pacey and entertaining' Guardian
A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab and asks to be taken to the Hotel Bristol. Before he reaches his destination he has been murdered: shot through the throat. Though Sponer has committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life. As the police circle closer, Sponer finds himself caught up in a tangled web of intrigue.
I Was Jack Mortimer is a breathless, darkly captivating tale of misappropriated identity from one of the leading Austrian writers of the twentieth century.
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The Living Stones
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Kokoro
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Ice
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The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
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Goose of Hermogenes
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Beware of Pity
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The Crying of the Wind
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Journey by Moonlight
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The Samurai
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And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon
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Parisian Days
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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
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Wolf Moon
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The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
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Effi Briest
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Flight Without End
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The Evenings
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The Beauties
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Background for Love
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Gothic Tales
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Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub
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The Pendragon Legend
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The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
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A Different Sound
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Nocturnal Apparitions
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In Farthest Seas
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The Book of Paradise
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Hidden Faces
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The Last Miracle: Jewish Stories
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The Story of a Single Woman
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The Hunting Gun
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The Allure of Chanel
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The Friend of the Family
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Weights and Measures
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Death in Venice
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Notes from Fuhrer HQ
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Troubled Waters
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Sevastopol Tales
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Love and Enchantment
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Conversations with Rilke
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The Siren's Lament
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Birds, Beasts and a World Made New
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Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner
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A Time to Be Born
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No Way Back
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Poems to Night
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Yevgeny Onegin
"The cast of this brilliant thriller.. are pure Raymond Chandler ... but the Viennese setting gives it an extra, stylish twist. It's excEllently written and fearsomely gripping." - Kate Saunders, The Times
"Very few novels published in recent years match its daunting panache... The fast-moving, cleverly convoluted plot is brilliantly served by the sustained irony of Ignat Avsey's witty translation... a terrific book, one to read and then urge everyone else to follow suit... a truly clever, rather wonderful book that both plays with and defies genre." - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
"A fascinating snapshot of Vienna between the wars, pacey and entertaining." - Laura Wilson, Guardian
"The action shifts and shimmers in a Vienna that comes to life." - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
"Very few novels published in recent years match its daunting panache... The fast-moving, cleverly convoluted plot is brilliantly served by the sustained irony of Ignat Avsey's witty translation... a terrific book, one to read and then urge everyone else to follow suit... a truly clever, rather wonderful book that both plays with and defies genre." - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
"A fascinating snapshot of Vienna between the wars, pacey and entertaining." - Laura Wilson, Guardian
"The action shifts and shimmers in a Vienna that comes to life." - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His uneasy relationship with the National Socialist Party resulted in his removal from prominence in 1944, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life. He died in 1976.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781805330370 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805330373 |
| Title | I Was Jack Mortimer |
| Author | Alexander Lernet-Holenia |
| Series | Pushkin Press Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2024-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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