All on a Summer's Day
by John William Wainwright
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The summer's day in question is the 24 hours of one June 26, as endured by a police department in the north of England. This masterful police procedural is more convincing than those of Joseph Wambaugh--because the events of June 26 are all too terribly believable.Tags
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Author John William Wainwright was born in 1921. During World War II, he served as a rear gunner. Afterwards, he worked as a policeman in Yorkshire for twenty years. He wrote eighty novels between 1965 and 1992. Wainwright published 78 crime novels, a short-story collection and four non-fiction works, including two autobiographical volumes, show more Tail-End Charlie and Wainwright's Beat; a career guide, Shall I Be a Policeman? (1967), and a home security handbook, Guard Your Castle. One of his most popular novels is Brainwash (1977), upon which the movies Garde à vue and Under Suspicion (2000 film) are based. He also wrote under the pseudonym of Jack Ripley. He passed away in September 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1981
- Epigraph
- The raw recruit to the police at the start of professional policing in this country was assumed to be stupid but trainable.
The Idea of Policing
in Britain: Success
or Failure?
The Police We Deserve... (show all)
T. A. Critchley - First words
- The sweep hand of the office wall-clock moved past the vertical, and it was the start of a new day.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Time, like the geometrician's dot, didn't exist other than in the imagination; 'now' became 'then' merely by reason of noting it . . .
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- English
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