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The Big Clock
CRIME MASTERWORKS (Related to this series)
- Author
- Kenneth Fearing
- Narrator
- Jeff Harding
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 15 August 2019
- Run Time
- 5 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, unscrupulous journalist working for tyrannical Earl Janoth's media empire. And he's involved with the wrong woman - his boss's mistress, Pauline Delos. One day, as Stroud escorts Pauline home, he spies his boss returning from a trip. The next day, Pauline is found dead in her apartment.
Janoth knows someone saw him enter Pauline's apartment on the night of the murder; he knows it must have been the man Pauline was seeing on the side; but he doesn't know his identity. To get his hands on the man and pin the crime on him, Janoth assigns his best investigative reporter and most trusted employee to track him down: George Stroud...
Critics Review
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THE BIG CLOCK has it - the deadpan, make-believe sinister quality, and the terse, preposterous fancy. It is, besides, a thriller with a unique plot
TIME
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If you enjoy top-drawer detective fiction...we can recommend this one with no reservations whatsoever
NEW YORK TIMES
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So rare a compound of irony, satire, and icy-fingered narrative
WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW
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[A] brilliant study in noir...deservedly a classic in its depiction of the corporate man at his most basic and disloyal
BOSTON GLOBE AND MAIL
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A master of the tour de force
WASHINGTON POST
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Details
- Author
- Kenneth Fearing
- Narrator
- Jeff Harding
- Duration
- 5 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 August 2019
- ISBN
- 9781409195733
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Synopsis
How does a man escape from himself...? A classic masterpiece of American noir fiction.George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, unscrupulous journalist working for tyrannical Earl Janoth's media empire. And he's involved with the wrong woman - his boss's mistress, Pauline Delos. One day, as Stroud escorts Pauline home, he spies his boss returning from a trip. The next day, Pauline is found dead in her apartment.Janoth knows someone saw him enter Pauline's apartment on the night of the murder; he knows it must have been the man Pauline was seeing on the side; but he doesn't know his identity. To get his hands on the man and pin the crime on him, Janoth assigns his best investigative reporter and most trusted employee to track him down: George Stroud...
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