The Resource The last detective, by Peter Lovesey
The last detective, by Peter Lovesey
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- Summary
- Modern forensic technology, complete with computers and genetic fingerprinting, clashes with the motives and methods of anachronistic copper Peter Diamond, whose rough-and ready ways have gotten him in heaps of trouble. Now Diamond, delightfully human, shrewd but often dead wrong, struggles against bureaucratic intervention in a murder investigation. Geraldine Snoo, whose corpse was found in a lake, was a former soap star who left behind debts, a history of neurotic behavior, and an indifferent husband who, through a bizarre series of events, has come into possession of two letters written by Jane Austen. Lovesey moves seamlessly between third-person narration and the first-person recollections of various witnesses. Clues are littered all over the place, but only a few matter and none makes any kind of sense until much later, after the wrong person is set to take the fall and a missing household possession points the way towards a whole new avenue of investigation, one the loathed technocrats in their white coats managed to miss
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 331 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616950811
- Label
- The last detective
- Title
- The last detective
- Statement of responsibility
- by Peter Lovesey
- Subject
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- trueMurder suspects
- trueMurder investigation
- trueLondon, England
- trueForensic sciences
- trueEngland
- trueDiamond, Peter (Fictitious character)
- Police -- England | Bath -- Fiction
- truePolice -- England
- Diamond, Peter (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Bath (England) -- Fiction
- trueBath, England
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Modern forensic technology, complete with computers and genetic fingerprinting, clashes with the motives and methods of anachronistic copper Peter Diamond, whose rough-and ready ways have gotten him in heaps of trouble. Now Diamond, delightfully human, shrewd but often dead wrong, struggles against bureaucratic intervention in a murder investigation. Geraldine Snoo, whose corpse was found in a lake, was a former soap star who left behind debts, a history of neurotic behavior, and an indifferent husband who, through a bizarre series of events, has come into possession of two letters written by Jane Austen. Lovesey moves seamlessly between third-person narration and the first-person recollections of various witnesses. Clues are littered all over the place, but only a few matter and none makes any kind of sense until much later, after the wrong person is set to take the fall and a missing household possession points the way towards a whole new avenue of investigation, one the loathed technocrats in their white coats managed to miss
- Award
- Anthony Award for Best Novel, 1992.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 041602
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lovesey, Peter
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6062.O86
- LC item number
- L37 1991
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Peter Diamond series
- Series volume
- 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Diamond, Peter (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Bath (England)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The last detective, by Peter Lovesey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 331 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616950811
- Lccn
- 91011859
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- Imprint varies.
- System control number
-
- 23287106
- 142731
- Label
- The last detective, by Peter Lovesey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 331 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616950811
- Lccn
- 91011859
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- Imprint varies.
- System control number
-
- 23287106
- 142731
Subject
- trueMurder suspects
- trueMurder investigation
- trueLondon, England
- trueForensic sciences
- trueEngland
- trueDiamond, Peter (Fictitious character)
- Police -- England | Bath -- Fiction
- truePolice -- England
- Diamond, Peter (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Bath (England) -- Fiction
- trueBath, England
- Detective and mystery fiction
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