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Im London der 1980er ermittelt der namenlose Detective Sergeant des A14 - Letzteres besser bekannt als »die Factory« - im Mordfall eines erfolglosen Schriftstellers und nimmt dabei weder Rücksicht auf Vorgesetzte noch auf sein Privatleben. Er kriecht förmlich in den Kopf seines Opfers, spürt dessen Exfrauen, Kollegen, Zechkumpane und ehemalige Feinde in tristen Pubs und Mietskasernen auf - so in Acacia Circus, einem Block, der von arbeitslosen...

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When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station. Working from cassette tapes left behind in the dead man's property, our narrator must piece together the history of his blighted existence and discover the agents of its cruel end. Wh...

Raymond's last book, unpublished in his lifetime

A man's corpse is discovered in a Rotherhithe warehouse, chopped up, boiled to avoid identification, and bundled into five Waitrose carrier bags. Our nameless narrator from A14 - the 'Unexplained Deaths' division of the Met - is put on the case. Operating, as usual, with his wit and sheer nerve in place of adequate resources and contacts, the narrator's investigations uncover much more than the murderer. As he probes a world of horror in South...

First published in 1962, The Crust On Its Uppers, Derek Raymond?s first novel (written when he was Robin Cook) is a gripping tale of class betrayal. With ruthless precision, and a great deal of humour, it brings vividly to life a London of spivs, crooked toffs and bent coppers.

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One of the most shocking crime novels of all time In what may be Derek Raymond's most talked-about novel--indeed, in what may be one of the most talked about crime novels ever--the reader is immediately plunged into the horrific mind of one of the most brutally damaged and murderous killers the unnamed Sergeant has ever faced. But why the gentle Dora Suarez was murdered at all becomes the Sergeant's obsession. As it turns out, she was alread...

Can you murder for love? In the third novel of the series, the nameless detective visits a decrepit country house to look into the case of a lady of the manor who has disappeared. It is, as always for the nameless one, 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. Meanwhile other cops are getting in the way of the Sergeant and he's making new e...

Never before available in the U.S., the final episode in the Factory Series is another unrelenting investigation with the nameless detective into the black soul of Thatcher's England.The fifth and final book in the author's acclaimed Factory Series was published just after Derek Raymond's death, and so didn't get the kind of adulatory attention the previous four titles in the series got. The book has been unavailable for so long that many of D...

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An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. On the same night, in the West End, a firearm blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part-owner of the seedy Parallel Club. The unnamed narrator, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police's Unexplained Deaths division, develops a fixation on the young woman whose murder he investigates. And he discovers that Suarez's deat...

Londra. In un magazzino sulle rive del Tamigi viene rinvenuto il cadavere di un uomo orrendamente mutilato. I dettagli della scena del crimine fanno pensare a un'esecuzione, il lavoro di un killer prezzolato che però, chissà per quale ragione, ha deciso di lasciare dietro di sé un'orribile traccia. L'indagine è affidata alla squadra della sezione Delitti irrisolti e al sergente che la guida, un uomo duro e disilluso ma che conosce il senso più...

Il corpo senza vita di Charles Staniland, un alcolizzato di mezza età, viene ritrovato sul ciglio di una strada alla periferia di Londra con evidenti segni di violenza. In una città dilaniata dalle tensioni sociali, Scotland Yard ha indagini più importanti da portare avanti: come è noto nell'ambiente, i casi di poco conto, quelli con cui gli altri dipartimenti non vogliono sporcarsi le mani, sono affidati alla sezione Delitti irrisolti, polizi...

Thornhill, dintorni di Londra. Marianne Mardy, un'affascinante e talentuosa cantante francese, è scomparsa lasciando dietro di sé un alone d'inquietudine. A occuparsi del caso è il sergente del dipartimento più malvisto della polizia londinese, la sezione Delitti irrisolti, un uomo naturalmente incline all'empatia ma forgiato dalla strada, dove l'unico insegnamento che vale la pena di seguire è quello di tenersi il più lontano possibile da ogn...

La notte in cui un colpo di pistola alla testa mette fine alla vita di Felix Roatta, uno dei soci di uno squallido locale londinese, il Parallel Club, il corpo della giovane Dora Suarez viene ritrovato orribilmente seviziato. Un delitto misterioso quanto efferato, il tipo di indagine che ogni poliziotto vorrebbe evitare e che solo il sergente della sezione Delitti irrisolti sembra in grado di gestire. La morte di Dora Suarez diventa però per l...

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