Джон Уэйнрайт – лучшие книги

Очередной сборник объединил в себе три детективных романа, обладающих всеми достоинствами этого жанра. Как всегда: острый сюжет, мастерски закрученная интрига, циничная изощренность преступников и высокий профессионализм детективов. Знакомство со сборником доставит много волнующих, приятных минут читателю.

The summer's day in question is the 24 hours of one June 26, as endured by a police department in the north of England. This masterful police procedural is more convincing than those of Joseph Wambaugh--because the events of June 26 are all too terribly believable.

When after hours of interrogations, a pharmacist admits to poisoning his wife and lays out his motive and method, the police reject his confession, the guilt-ridden widower is driven to new heights of desperation

A man has been sentenced to eighteen years for rape. He is released after twelve, and returns to a wife who wants, in spite of everything, to stand by him and help him. But the man has other ideas. Men convicted of rape are not well-treated by their fellows in prison. This man, sensitive and civilized, had been treated very badly indeed. And he didn't consider that he'd committed rate at all. In his view he'd been framed - "set up". The people he blamed for framing him play a large part in the story that follows. There are also, as always with john WAINWRIGHT'S NOVELS, THE POLICEMEN; IT IS THE FAT, TOUGH, KINDLY Superintendent Lennox who uses all his energy and acumen to try and sort things out as they head towards a multiple, disastrous climax. John Wainwright is always a subtle and original storyteller. He has outdone himself here by the use of narrative techniques that make this new novel absolutely compulsive reading. Book Dust Jacket

"A form of theft, perhaps? The theft of a life? But if that life is valueless...anything without value is not able to be stolen...basic Criminal Law. No value, not theft - no theft, no murder." 'Take Murder' is an absorbing take of murder, investigation, and detection. Three prostitutes have been murdered, one after the other, and all in an identical manner. The police suspect one of their own number, an officer with dubious tastes who was on the scene very early after the first two bodies had been discovered. He is convicted and locked up. But then comes the third murder, and with it the thought that obviously the condemned man must be innocent. Thus is presented the legal quandary; the law is never wrong - but are law and justice the same thing? As always with John Wainwright, this compelling story proceeds at a great pace. And once again the narration is subtle, giving away only as much as the author chooses. There is excitement on every page, surprise and irony at the end. Book Dust Jacket