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Tag Archives: John Banville
Benjamin Black, “The Black-Eyed Blonde”
I was a teeny bit underwhelmed by Benjamin Black/John Banville’s most recent offering, Holy Orders. And suspicious, as I read it, that LA gumshoe Philip Marlowe had replaced Quirke in Black’s affections. After all, writers do sometimes get bored by … Continue reading
Posted in mystery
Tagged Benjamin Black, Daphne Du Maurier, John Banville, Los Angeles, Peter Englund, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler, World War I
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Benjamin Black, “Holy Orders”
I’m a little suspicious about Benjamin Black/John Banville’s rate of production here. Holy Orders is his most recent Quirke mystery, apparently released in August, a year after Vengeance. Yet in March we’ll see The Black-Eyed Blonde, in which Black follows in … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, mystery
Tagged Benjamin Black, Dublin, Irish travelers, John Banville, Raymond Chandler
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Benjamin Black, “A Death in Summer”
This, my friends, is a very classy entertainment. Dark, certainly: Benjamin Black is no cheerful read. On the final page of the novel our wounded protagonist Dr. Quirke sums up the previous 300 pages to Detective Inspector Hackett: ‘It isn’t … Continue reading
Benjamin Black, “The Silver Swan”
OK, now I am officially envious of John Banville. Or Benjamin Black, as he calls himself when writing mysteries. This must happen to everybody sometime: you think you’re competent at your trade, and you come across someone who is just … Continue reading
John Banville, “The Untouchable”
I suppose this is electronic serendipity. Stuck in a waiting-room somehow without a book, I went to Amazon to order what I thought was going to be the new Benjamin Black murder mystery. I thought maybe I’d recovered enough strength … Continue reading
Benjamin Black, “Christine Falls”
Another case of an overqualified author turning out a crackerjack murder mystery. Benjamin Black is a psuedonym of John Banville, the Irish poet and novelist. Which is why, I suppose, we get fabulous sentences like this: “Suddenly for him death … Continue reading
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