Benjamin Black
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a local scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Her friend, Phoebe Griffin, suspects the worst. Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke uses his knowledge of the darker byways of the city to investigate April's disappearance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realize that, rather than the suspected suicide, "Diamond Dick" has in fact been murdered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the second Quirke novel from Man Booker prize-winning John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary Dublin pathologist first encountered in "Christine Falls". It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When Billy Hunt, an acquaintance...
Author
Series
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This work is a compelling new crime series from the pen of Booker Prize winner John Banville. In the Pathology Department, it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job...it was restful, cozy, one might almost say, down in these depths nearly two floors beneath the city's busy pavements. There was too a sense here of being part of the continuance of ancient practices, secret skills, of work too dark to be carried on up...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his partner's son--who becomes the sole witness when Delahaye produces a pistol, points it at his own chest, and fires. This mysterious death immediately engages the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett, who in turn calls upon the services of his sometime partner Quirke, consultant pathologist at the Hospital...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that's needed, the doctor declares, is an extended rest. But Quirke, ever intent on finding his place among the living, is not about to retire. One night during a June heat wave, a car crashes into a tree in central...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague and a story of murder, magic and the dark art of wielding extraordinary power Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in...