- Fiction, Fiction in English, Mystery, Spanish language
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case.
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Classical in form, grave, plot-driven and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Len Deighton
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 402
- Publisher
- Curley Pub., G. K. Hall, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- German, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780792713234
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