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Death of a foreign gentleman [Paperback]
Carroll, Steven, 1949-2024
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Click and Collect for Death of a foreign gentleman [Paperback]Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher who is in Cambridge to give a series of lectures, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car runs through him and kills him. A grisly death for one of the finest minds of the age. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born, cockney Jew, whose parents were interned during the war as enemy aliens, stands over the body of Friedrich contemplating the age-old question - who did it? Because Friedrich might be one of the finest minds of his age, but he's also problematic. A brilliant philosopher whose lectures attracted students from all over Europe before the war and is regarded as the founder of modern existentialism, Friedrich was also, in the 1930s, a member of the Nazi Party. As Stephen is soon to discover, there is no shortage of suspects. Friedrich -arrogant, a womaniser dedicated solely to his own work over anything or anybody else - was hated by almost everybody, even those who loved him. Is there any sense to his death - a logic to the sequence of events that led to it - or was his death just a case of rotten, random luck? Has the universe spoken, and, in this sense, should Friedrich be pleased with the nature of his death as it is, after all, confirmation of his life's observations on our indifferent, random universe? Or are there more sinister factors at work?
Main title:
Death of a foreign gentleman [Paperback] / Steven Carroll.
Author:
Carroll, Steven, 1949-, author
Imprint:
Gadigal Country : Fourth Estate, 2024.©2024
Collation:
267 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Stephen Minter ; 1.
ISBN:
97814607645899781460764589
Dewey class:
A823.3A823.00
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
553224
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - Crime | CARR | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 14 May 2024) |
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - Crime | CARR | In-transit from Beaumaris Library to Brighton Library (Set: 16 May 2024) |
| Hampton Library | Adult Fiction - Crime | CARR | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 10 May 2024) |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | A823.00 | On order |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | A823.00 | On order |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | A823.00 | On order |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | A823.00 | On order |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | A823.00 | On order |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | A823.00 | On order |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | A823.00 | On order |
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