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Duffy is summoned to a country manor for his hairiest case yet Vic Crowther's housekeeper found the body. Ricky bled out after crashing through the French windows of the manor's library. Crowther doesn't know who did this tonbsp;Ricky, but he does know whom to blame. Duffy, the security consultant who installed the dodgy burglar alarm, will have to answer for this murder. When Duffy rushes out to the country to smooth things over, he finds more than one surprise. First of all, Ricky was a show more dog. And Braunscombe Hall is filled to capacity with strange folks--even by Duffy's rarefied standards. His country sojourn is extended--as are his headaches--when he finds that each of the eccentric guests has a problem that needs his expertise. show lessTags
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Synopsis: There are four books in this set. The all deal with a former policeman who loves a working policewoman, but can only have affairs with other women or men. He has his own security company and does odd jobs for people in need of a detective. On the whole he's only moderately effective.
Review: The 'Putting the Boot in' is worth skipping. - it's all about soccer and in boring detail. The other three are worth the time it takes to read them, but I never did really like the main character.
Review: The 'Putting the Boot in' is worth skipping. - it's all about soccer and in boring detail. The other three are worth the time it takes to read them, but I never did really like the main character.
So that's Duffy then. Not sure any of them were as good or as gritty as the first.
d.i. Julian Barnes
Buena edición Barnes aprovecha para burlarse un poco de todo, de los posh británicos, de los arrribistas, etc, agil bien escrita con sesgos de ironía, muy linda lectura con la excusa de un policial. Se reclama la presencia de duffy en una casa de campo, donde le instaló a un ex hampón una alarma que no sono cuando tiraron un perro por la ventada. Y ahi comienza una trama de enredos y delitos mezclados.
Apr 17, 2024Spanish
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Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England, on January 19, 1946. He received a degree in modern languages from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1968. He has held jobs as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, a reviewer and literary editor for the New Statesmen and the New Review, and a television critic. He has written show more numerous works of fiction including Arthur and George, Pulse: Stories, The Noise of Time, and England, England. He received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1980 for Metroland, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1985 and a Prix Medicis in 1986 for Flaubert's Parrot, and the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for The Sense of an Ending. He also writes non-fiction works including Letters from London, The Pedant in the Kitchen, and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. He received the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation in 1993, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2004, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2011. He writes detective novels under the pseudonym Dan Kavanaugh. His works under this name include Duffy, Fiddle City, Putting the Boot In, and Going to the Dogs. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Tout fout le camp !
- Original title
- Going to the Dogs
- Original publication date
- 1987
- People/Characters
- Nicolas Duffy
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