The Resource The long drop, Denise Mina
The long drop, Denise Mina
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The item The long drop, Denise Mina represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar. William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family. One December night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, this is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The long drop
- Title
- The long drop
- Statement of responsibility
- Denise Mina
- Subject
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- Businessmen -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Morrow, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- trueMurder victims
- trueMurderers
- truePsychological suspense
- trueSecrets
- Serial murderers -- Fiction
- trueSerial murders
- trueStreet life
- trueSuspense fiction
- trueTrials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Fiction
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueCity life
- trueCrime
- trueCrimes against women
- trueCriminals
- Criminals -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- trueDrinking
- Families -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- trueFamily killing
- Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction
- Glasgow (Scotland) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueGlasgow, Scotland
- trueGuilt
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar. William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family. One December night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, this is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel
- Summary
- Centered around the “trial of the century” in Glasgow in 1950, the innocence and guilt of those involved is explored, starting with Peter Manuel who has been found guilty of a string of murders, starting with the Watt family, and is waiting to die by hanging
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10515951
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mina, Denise
- Dewey number
- 823.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Alex Morrow
- Series volume
- 6
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Morrow, Alex (Fictitious character)
- Businessmen
- Criminals
- Families
- Serial murderers
- Murder
- Trials (Murder)
- Glasgow (Scotland)
- Glasgow (Scotland)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The long drop, Denise Mina
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059721030
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781911215240
- Isbn Type
- (trade paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)951227287
- Label
- The long drop, Denise Mina
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059721030
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781911215240
- Isbn Type
- (trade paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)951227287
Subject
- Businessmen -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Morrow, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- trueMurder victims
- trueMurderers
- truePsychological suspense
- trueSecrets
- Serial murderers -- Fiction
- trueSerial murders
- trueStreet life
- trueSuspense fiction
- trueTrials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Fiction
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueCity life
- trueCrime
- trueCrimes against women
- trueCriminals
- Criminals -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- trueDrinking
- Families -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- trueFamily killing
- Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction
- Glasgow (Scotland) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueGlasgow, Scotland
- trueGuilt
Genre
- truePsychological suspense
- Suspense fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
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