Kavanagh, Dan (Pseudonym of Julian Barnes)

New York. 1988. January 1988. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394563220. 208 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by John Martinez. keywords: Mystery England Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - GOING TO THE DOGS is Dan Kavanagh's third thriller to be published by Pantheon featuring the street-smart, cynical, neurotic, bisexual Duffy. This time Duffy is tempted away from his normal low-life London beat by a telephone call from the country mansion of Vic Crowther, an old and dubious acquaintance. A body has been found in the library. A body in the library? That sound familiar. But neither the body nor the library nor the country mansion are at all what they seem. This is not the world of Agatha Christie and genteel murder among the cucumber sandwiches. Dan Kavanagh's thriller is firmly set in the on-the-make Britain of the 1980s, where new money talks loud, old vices flourish, and the people you run into during a country-house weekend are the sort you might very well not want to ask home to meet your mother. As Duffy's stay at Braunscombe Hall is prolonged, he finds himself with an epidemic of crime on is hands and a houseful of suspects, who don't always take to Duffy. Even their legal behavior isn't always very nice. Duffy begins to worry that the country is going to the dogs. inventory #27827 ISBN: 0394563220.