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Name: How the Dead Live

Author: Derek Raymond
Year: 1986
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Genres/categories:
Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Noir

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ISBNs:
9781852427986
9781935554592
1852427981

This, the third novel in the Factory Series, sees Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife. How The Dead Live is a haunting, fantastical novel, with a hellish country house at its centre; a mystery with little interest in the mystery, a police procedural with almost no procedure. Instead, and as ever with Raymond, it's a brilliantly unsettling investigation into love and damnation. This is life seen from the very bottom of the bottle - a fitting succesor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis.

This book is part of the "Factory Series" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"I Was Dora Suarez"
First published in 1990
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"The Devil's Home on Leave"
First published in 1985
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"He Died with His Eyes Open"
First published in 1984
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