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The London Sextet — Russell James
An original collection of six stories from the writer Ian Rankin called ‘The Godfather of British Noir'. James is ‘surely the best of Britain's darker crime writers' said London's Times, and although the Encyclopaedia of Modern Crime Fiction said he wrote ‘some of the best crime fiction being written today' we find within these stories a surprisingly human delicacy.
These stories have been brought together for the first time here within one book. Five are set in London, though the first brings some of his London characters out for a day's shooting in the Cotswolds. (This is the story singled out in the Times as ‘a splendid country house shocker'.) In this book you'll meet criminals and the women who wait for them, a missing daughter, London lowlife, faded aristocracy â€" and the only James story to feature a private detective. What more could you ask?
These stories have been brought together for the first time here within one book. Five are set in London, though the first brings some of his London characters out for a day's shooting in the Cotswolds. (This is the story singled out in the Times as ‘a splendid country house shocker'.) In this book you'll meet criminals and the women who wait for them, a missing daughter, London lowlife, faded aristocracy â€" and the only James story to feature a private detective. What more could you ask?
