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Last Detective by Louise Penny (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSOHO Press, Incorporated
ISBN-101616955309
ISBN-139781616955304
eBay Product ID (ePID)201680934
Product Key Features
Book TitleLast Detective
Number of Pages408 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / Traditional
Publication Year2014
GenreFiction
AuthorLouise Penny
Book SeriesA Detective Peter Diamond Mystery Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight12.2 Oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsPraise for The Last Detective "The first volume in Lovesey's beloved Peter Diamond series has a handsome new 20th-anniversary edition" -- Entertainment Weekly "A bravura performance ... slyly paced, marbled with surprise and in the end, strangely affecting." -- The New York Times Book Review "Thickly textured, amusing, unpredictably mixing puzzle and procedural ... one of the best." -- Los Angeles Times "A treasure." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Not only a good story but a compelling one." -- Boston Globe "Top-form Lovesey." -- Kirkus Reviews "Witty ... One surprise after another." --Publishers Weekly Praise for The Peter Diamond series "I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time--you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book." -- Sara Paretsky "These erudite and wondrously witty books are unlike any police procedural you've ever read." -- The New York Times Book Review "Thickly textured, amusing, unpredictably mixing puzzle and procedural.... One of the best." -- Los Angeles Times "Witty.... A perfectly realized murder mystery." -- Wall Street Journal "Extremely stylish, lighter than air ... utterly surprising." -- Newsweek "Lovesey's books are so beautifully constructed and cleanly written that they could be used as textbooks in a crime writing course." -- Chicago Tribune
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal823/.914
Synopsis"I am so excited for you to be at the very beginning of this trend-setting, beautifully written, vivid series."--from the introduction by LOUISE PENNY In the first entry to the series and winner of the 1992 Anthony Boucher Award for Best Mystery Novel, Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen to solve the murder of the "Lady in the Lake." A woman's body has been found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath. There are no marks on her and no murder weapon. No one will identify her. It looks like Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has his work cut out for him. Diamond is one of the last detectives of his kind, a gumshoe whose heroes solved crimes by question and answer, door stepping and deduction. To unravel this one, Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors in order to save a woman unjustly accused of murder.
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- 28 Sep, 2021
Classic detective!
A librarian recommended this reissue of a classic detective novel by award winning author Peter Lovesey. This is the first in the Detective Peter Diamond series, and I am hooked. So far I've read the second one, and plan to read the rest in order.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Mar, 2021
Good book
Good book. Looking forward to reading the next one in the seriesVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
