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Benjamin Black

The Secret Guests

By Benjamin Black - Published 2020

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Booker prize-winning Irish author John Banville has written this novel under the pen name he uses for his popular “Quirke” crime novels, to ...Read Review

Wolf on a String

By Benjamin Black - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

This historical novel takes place at the end of 1599, during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. Christian Stern comes to Prague ...Read Review

Even the Dead: A Quirke Novel

By Benjamin Black - Published 2015 Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

Inspector Quirke is back in Benjamin Black’s latest, and he picks up with Quirke recuperating at his adoptive brother and sister-in-law’s ...Read Review

The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel

By Benjamin Black - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

It’s 1950s California, and P.I. Philip Marlowe sits staring at a silent telephone in a quiet room, empty of eager clients. ...Read Review

Vengeance

By Benjamin Black - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Benjamin Black, pseudonym for Irish writer John Banville, has written number five in a series of crime noir novels featuring Detective Inspector Hackett ...Read Review

A Death in Summer

By Benjamin Black - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

This latest offering in the Quirke series opens with the shotgun killing of newspaper proprietor Richard Jewell, aka Diamond Dick. His own paper ...Read Review