Meet Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only Laidlaw stands a chance of finding her murderer from among the hard men, gangland villains and self-made moneymen who lurk in the city's shadows. WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN-10
0857869868
ISBN-13
9780857869869
eBay Product ID (ePID)
148698951
Product Key Features
Author
William Mcilvanney
Format
B-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Genre
General & Literary Fiction
Dimensions
Weight
207g
Height
198mm
Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Spine
18mm
Series Part/Volume Number
1
Series Title
Laidlaw Trilogy
Prizes
Winner of CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction 1977. Shortlisted for Coventry Inspiration Book Awards: Murder, Mystery and Mayhem Category 2013.
Author Biography
William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. He died in December 2015.