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The Eighth Circle

Stanley Ellin

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#1391 of 8,085 books · #427 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1959).

For Murray Kirk, running a private investigation agency is a business; he isn't interested in justice or crusades, just profit and loss. And, because Murray knows something about police corruption, when he's asked to act for a young officer accused of bribery, he isn't keen. He can't see the profit - until he meets the man's fiancée. Then his motives become uncomfortably confused, and he finds himself descending into a murky world of bookmakers, gangsters and crooked politicians, where setting up an honest cop is all in a day's work.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9781471903229
Topics
Police corruptionPrivate investigationMoral ambiguity

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