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Dirty Tricks

By Michael Dibdin

By Michael Dibdin

By Michael Dibdin

By Michael Dibdin

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Category: Crime Mysteries

Category: Crime Mysteries

Paperback $12.00

Jul 08, 2003 | ISBN 9780375700095

Ebook $8.99

Jun 06, 2012 | ISBN 9780307822451

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    About Dirty Tricks

    A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers around.

    When the nameless narrator embarks upon an affair with Karen, a seemingly vapid P.E. teacher married to a boring accountant, he does not know her fetish is for adultery while her husband is in the room or loitering nearby. But once he finds out, he doesn’t care. He has been abroad for twenty years, and since his return to merry old England he’s been startlingly uninhibited by morals or a conscience. Which is not only why he eventually gets involved with blackmail, a kidnapping, and two murders, but also how, with hilariously syllogistic logic, he’s able to justify his role in all of it.

    About Dirty Tricks

    A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers around.

    When the nameless narrator embarks upon an affair with Karen, a seemingly vapid P.E. teacher married to a boring accountant, he does not know her fetish is for adultery while her husband is in the room or loitering nearby. But once he finds out, he doesn’t care. He has been abroad for twenty years, and since his return to merry old England he’s been startlingly uninhibited by morals or a conscience. Which is not only why he eventually gets involved with blackmail, a kidnapping, and two murders, but also how, with hilariously syllogistic logic, he’s able to justify his role in all of it.

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    About Michael Dibdin

    Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on… More about Michael Dibdin

    About Michael Dibdin

    Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on… More about Michael Dibdin

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Mysteries

    Paperback | $12.00
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Jul 08, 2003 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375700095

    Category: Crime Mysteries

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Jun 06, 2012 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307822451
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    Praise

    “Superb . . . . It’s just like James M. Cain, only funny. Come to think of it, maybe it’s more just like Nabokov. Only fun.” —The New York Times

    “[A] superior piece of noir. . . brisk, absorbing and . . . satisfying.” —The Sunday Times

    “Nasty, original, murderously funny entertainment.” —The Independent

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