Dolphin junction : stories / Mick Herron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herron, Mick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal investigation--Fiction.

Criminal investigation.

Genre:

Short stories.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Spy fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

298 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century. He has been awarded both the Gold and Steel Daggers by the Crime Writers' Association and has been called "the John Le Carré of the future" (BBC). But Mick Herron does more than "just" write flawlessly suspenseful spy thrillers. He is a craftist of the highest order, irrepressibly versatile in form (novels, novellas, short fiction) and mood (witty, taut, spooky, laugh-out-loud funny), whose "efficient, darkly witty, tipped-with-imagery sentences . . . feel purpose-built to perforate [our] private daze of illiteracy" (The Atlantic). Now, for the first time, Herron's short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five standalone nerve wrackingly thrilling crime fiction stories are complemented by four mystery stories featuring the Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of shrewd Zoë Boehm and hapless Joe Silvermann. The collection also includes a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top agent at Slough House"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Proof of love

Remote control

Lost luggage

Mirror images

Dolphin junction

An American fridge

The other half

All the livelong day

The last dead letter

The usual Santas

What we do.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781641293020

1641293020

OCLC:

1248598359