BLACK BENJAMIN (JOHN BANVILLE)

Ο ΛΕΜΟΥΡΙΟΣ
Ο Γουίλιαμ "Μεγάλος Μπιλ" Μαλχόλαντ είναι ένας Ιρλανδοαμερικανός δισεκατομμυριούχος των ηλεκτρονικών συστημάτων. Πρώην μυστικός πράκτορας της CIA, σήμερα διευθύνει τον Οργανισμό Μαλχόλαντ με τη βοήθεια της κόρης του Λουίζ. Όταν ο Μαλχόλαντ παίρνει χαμπάρι ότι ο δημοσιογράφος Γουίλσον Κλίβερ σχεδιάζει να δημοσιεύσει μια εχθρική βιογραφία του, αναθέτει στον άντρα της κόρης του να γράψει την επίσημη γραμμή. Όμως ούτε ο ίδιος ούτε ο γαμπρός του υπολογίζουν σωστά τις καταχθόνιες υπηρεσίες του "Λεμούριου". Αποδεικνύεται ότι η σιωπή δεν εξαγοράζε...
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Ο ΑΣΗΜΕΝΙΟΣ ΚΥΚΝΟΣ
Ο χρόνος έχει κυλήσει για τον Κουίρκ, τον κουρασμένο από τη ζωή παθολόγο από το Δουβλίνο, τον οποίο συναντήσαμε για πρώτη φορά στο μυθιστόρημα "Ο διπλός θάνατος της Κριστίν Φολς". Βρισκόμαστε στα τέλη της επαίσχυντης δεκαετίας του '50. Μια γυναίκα που ο Κουίρκ κάποτε αγαπούσε έχει πεθάνει, ένας άντρας που κάποτε θαύμαζε πεθαίνει, ενώ η κόρη του, την οποία τόσα χρόνια αρνιόταν, ακόμα δυσκολεύεται να τον δεχτεί ως πατέρα της. Όταν ο Μπίλι Χαντ, γνωστός από τα χρόνια του κολεγίου, τον πλησιάζει και τον ενημερώνει για την προφανή αυτοκτονία τη...
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Η ΞΑΝΘΙΑ ΜΕ ΤΑ ΜΑΥΡΑ ΜΑΤΙΑ
Ο απαράμιλλος ιδιωτικός ντετέκτιβ του Ρέιμοντ Τσάντλερ επιστρέφει όταν μια γοητευτική νεαρή κληρονόμος τον παρασύρει στην πιο δύσκολη και επικίνδυνη υπόθεση της καριέρας του. Ο Μπέντζαμιν Μπλακ ξαναζωντανεύει τον περίφημο ντετέκτιβ για μια νέα περιπέτεια στους κακόφημους δρόμους του Μπέι Σίτι της Καλιφόρνιας. Βρισκόμαστε στις αρχές του 1950, ο Μάρλοου είναι ανήσυχος και μοναχικός όπως πάντα, και η δουλειά έχει κάπως πέσει. Τότε κάνει την εμφάνισή της μια καινούργια πελάτισσα: νέα, όμορφη, και με ακριβά ρούχα, ζητά από τον Μάρλοου να βρει τ...
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(P/B) THE SECRET GUESTS
For fans of The Crown comes an enthralling historical mystery set during the Second World War It is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can to assure the British public of their solidarity. But what of the two young princesses - Elizabeth and Margaret? How can they be kept safe without jeopardizing morale in the capital? Meanwhile Celia Nashe is delighted when she finally gets her long-awaited transfer to MI5. But whatever she was expecting of her mission for the war effort, it wasn't ...
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(P/B) PRAGUE NIGHTS
"The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head" Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman's body half-buried in the snow. The dead woman is none other than the emperor's mistress, and there's no shortage of suspects. Stern is employed by the emperor himself to investigate the murder. In the search to find the culprit, Stern finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of the emperor's court - unspoken aff...
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(P/B) CHRISTINE FALLS
Quirke’s pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. Until late one evening after a party he stumbles across a body that should not be there ? and his brother-in-law falsifying the corpse’s cause of death. This is the first time Quirke has encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived and died uncovers a dark secret at the heart of Dublin’s high Catholic network; one with the power to shake his own family a...
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(P/B) THE BLACK EYED BLONDE
The new Philip Marlowe mystery from the Booker Prize winning John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde... It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find he...
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(P/B) HOLY ORDERS
She looked at him and smiled sadly. 'You've lived too long among the dead, Quirke,' she said. He nodded. 'Yes, I suppose I have.' She was not the first one to have told him that, and she would not be the last. 1950s Dublin. When a body is found in the canal, pathologist Quirke and his detective friend Inspector Hackett must find the truth behind this brutal murder. But in a world where the police are not trusted and secrets often remain buried there is perhaps little hope of bringing the perpetrator to justice. As spring storms descend on ...
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(P/B) A DEATH IN SUMMER
When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realise that, rather than the suspected suicide, 'Diamond Dick' has in fact been murdered. Suspicion soon falls on one of Jewell's biggest rivals. Yet as Quirke and his assistant Sinclair get to know Jewell's beautiful, enigmatic wife, Fran?oise d'Aubigny, and his fragile sister Dannie, as well as those who work for the family, it gr...
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(P/B) VENGEANCE
Why would suicide need a witness? On the east coast of Ireland, Victor Delahaye, one of the country's most prominent citizens, takes his business partner's son out sailing. But once at sea, Davy Clancy is horrified to witness Delahaye take out a gun and shoot himself dead. This strange event captures the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett and his friend Pathologist Doctor Quirke. The Delahayes and Clancys have been rivals for generations and the suicide lays bare the perplexing characters at the heart of the mystery, from Mona, Delah...
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(P/B) ELEGY FOR APRIL
1950s Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fresh from drying out in an institution, responds to his daughter's request for help. But as Phoebe, Quirke and Inspector Hackett speak with those who knew April, they begin to realise that there may have been more behind the young woman's discretion and secrecy than they could have imagined. Why was April so estranged from her fami...
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(P/B) THE SILVER SWAN
Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist. (From the publisher)...
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Ο ΔΙΠΛΟΣ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΡΙΣΤΙΝ ΦΟΛΣ
Ο Κουίρκ, ένας μεσήλικας ιατροδικαστής, έρχεται αντιμέτωπος με μια ακόμα υπόθεση ρουτίνας: μια νεκρή κοπέλα, την Κριστίν Φολς, που πέθανε στη γέννα. Ωστόσο, πριν προλάβει να ολοκληρώσει τη νεκροψία, το πτώμα της κοπέλας εξαφανίζεται και ο φάκελός της εμφανίζεται τελεσίδικα έτοιμος, παραποιημένος - υποπτεύεται - από τον αδελφό του, επιφανή γυναικολόγο και φύλακα μυστικών που ο Κουίρκ είναι αποφασισμένος να ανακαλύψει. Μόνο που το μυστήριο της αδικοχαμένης Κριστίν πρόκειται να ανασύρει φαντάσματα από το δικό του παρελθόν, να θέσει σε κίνδυνο...
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(P/B) CHRISTINE FALLS

(H/B) THE LEMUR
William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When Mulholland gets wind of a hostile biography planned by journalist Wilson Cleaver, he commissions his daughter's husband, John Glass, to pen the official line. But neither he nor Glass had reckoned on the sinister services of 'the Lemur'. It turns out that silence cannot be bought - even by one of New York's wealthiest dynasties... (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE SILVER SWAN
Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist. (From the publisher)...
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