A man’s corpse is discovered in a London warehouse, bundled into five shopping bags. Our nameless narrator from the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met is put on the case. As he probes a world of horror in South London, a terrible secret from his own past emerges, and he uncovers much more than the murderer. Derek Raymond is the father of British noir and much admired by a new generation of crime writers. He died in 1994.

The Devil's Home on Leave/Large Format

RAYMOND, Derek

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

“A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme.”—Guardian In the three police procedurals that comprise the Factory Series, Derek Raymond has created a narrator who threatens to become a cult figure while preserving his anonymity. A loner and cynic, undervalued and underpaid, our hero is a nameless detective sergeant in the Department of Unexplained Deaths, a catch-all unit that investigates low-life crimes and is shunned by the blokes in the Serious Crimes Division of the Metropolitan Police. But our narrator, working out of the Factory, named by the villains because it has a bad reputation for doing suspects over in the interrogation rooms, is fired by a real feeling for justice. He believes that an alcoholic, found obscenely battered to death in a seedy, down-and-out part of London, deserves as much official attention as, say, a dead politician. This “nobody” becomes a somebody—a kindred spirit who left behind a strange legacy. Our cop becomes obsessed by the case. But even he could not have imagined how vicious, evil, and perversely attractive his opponent will turn out to be.

He Died with His Eyes Open: A Novel

Contemporary

Random House Publishing Group

When a woman disappears and her husband seems reluctant to find her, the case filters down to the Department of Unexplained Deaths, where one cop takes the case and finds himself on London's seamy South Side

How the Dead Live (The Factory series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

“Everything about I Was Dora Suarez shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far.”—The New York Times"For those who want some truly dark noir that will make most wince, you won't find a much darker ride through the human condition than this one."—Bookgasm.comAn ax-wielding psychopath cares young Dora Suarez into pieces. On the same night in London, a firearm blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part-owner of the seedy Parallel Club. The unnamed narrator, a police sergeant, becomes fixated on Dora and is determined to solve her murder. Then a photo links Suarez to Roatta, and inquiries at the club reveal how vile and inhuman exploitation can become.Derek Raymond’s real name was Robin Cook. He died in London in 1994.

I Was Dora Suarez

Can you murder for love?In the third novel of Derek Raymond's acclaimed Factory Series, the nameless detective visits a decrepit country house to look into the case of a disappeared woman.It is, as always for the Detective Sergeant, a deeply unsettling investigation of love and damnation. The woman's husband seems to love her entirely. And yet he seems reluctant to find her, preferring to hide in a house that resembles the set of a horror film. Meanwhile other cops are getting in the way of the Sergeant and he's making new enemies on the force.With growing desperation and his trademark sense of enraged compassion, the Sergeant fights to uncover a murderer not by following analytical procedure, but by doing the most idfficult thing of all: understanding why crimes are committed.

How the Dead Live (Abacus Books)

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1st Abacus 1988 trade edition paperback fine book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

He Died with His Eyes Open (Abacus Books)

First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Light shelf wear to the jacket and page block, otherwise as unread. LW

I was Dora Suarez

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The Devil's home on leave

Literary

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How the Dead Live

Little, Brown, UK

Hidden Files

Biographies & Memoirs

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