The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
Murray Kirk runs his private investigation agency like the business it is: he isn't interested in justice or crusades, just the profit and loss account. When he's asked to act for a young policeman accused of bribery, because he knows something about police corruption in New York City, he isn't too keen. He just can't see the profit - until he meets the man's fiancee. And then Kirk's motives become uncomfortably confused, and he finds himself descending swiftly into a grey world of bookmakers, gangsters, grafters and corrupt politicians, a world where setting up an honest cop is all in a day's work...-
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The Getaway
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Dance Hall of the Dead
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The Choirboys
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POP. 1280
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The Blue Room
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Sadie When She Died
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The Laughing Policeman
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The Grifters
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The Glass Key
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The Speciality of the House
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Ice
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The Dain Curse
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The Killer Inside Me
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The Labyrinth Makers
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Mildred Pierce
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The Big Clock
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After Dark, My Sweet
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Nightwebs
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Other Paths to Glory
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The Maltese Falcon
'This is the thirty-fifth in Orion's excellent Crime Masterworks series of past classicsThe Eighth Circle is more than worthy of inclusion.' DAILY EXPRESS
Stanley Ellin (1916-1986) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Brooklyn College. He worked as a teacher, a steelworked and a dairy farmer, and served in the US Army in World War 2, before becoming a full-time writer in 1946. His first published short story, 'The Speciality of the House' caused an immediate sensation and won him a special Ellery Queen Award. He won two Edgars for short stories, as well as one for The Eighth Circle, Le Grand Prix du Meilleur Roman Policier Etranger for Mirror, Mirror on the Wall and was made a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1980.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780752853314 |
| ISBN 10 | 0752853317 |
| Title | The Eighth Circle |
| Author | Stanley Ellin |
| Series | Crime Masterworks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2004-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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