ALL SOULS.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Constable Crime series/imprint.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj,by Terry Pastor; with negligble shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges - no nick,tears or splits present.Top edge lightly aged/toned,fore-edges less so,clean but for a couple of very small,faint grub (thumb?) marks; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's bright, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-317pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,17 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with story precis,author's previous 3 titles to its verso,title page,a dedication with an epigram to its verso and to the rear,2pp blanks.
It's October in Dublin and the constant drizzle and grey skies are wearing on everyone's patience and humour.Inspector Matt Minogue dreams of the bright white architecture and piercing blue skies of Greece, but is brought back to sombre reality by the attempted suicide of his partner,Seamus Hoey.
When his nephew,Eion,is suspected of gun-running for the IRA down in County Clare,Minogue reluctantly prepares to do his duty by his family.While he's in Clare,Minogue is introduced to Alo Crossan,a local lawyer who convinces Minogue,against his better instincts,to do some unofficial digging into the murder of Jane Clark,a young Canadian visiting Clare some dozen years before.
Putting aside his plans for a holiday and telling himself the case will create a diversion for Hoey, Minogue soon finds himself enmeshed in the case of Jane Clark and her lover,Jamesy Bourke,the half-crazed poet and local eccentric who was accused of her murder and is now out of prison.But,after years of drugs and experimental electroshock therapy,Jamesy Bourke's memory is returning - and what he is remembering of that night has set more than one old friend's heart pounding.
Author's 4th novel,also featuring Inspector Matt Minogue.
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