In the Pathology Department it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job...it was restful, cosy, one might almost say, down in these depths nearly two floors beneath the city's busy pavements. There was too a sense here of being part of the continuance of ancient practices, secret skills, of work too dark to be carried on up in the light. But one night, late after a party, Quirke stumbles across a body that shouldn't have been there...and his brother-in-law, eminent paediatrician Malachy ...
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In the Pathology Department it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job...it was restful, cosy, one might almost say, down in these depths nearly two floors beneath the city's busy pavements. There was too a sense here of being part of the continuance of ancient practices, secret skills, of work too dark to be carried on up in the light. But one night, late after a party, Quirke stumbles across a body that shouldn't have been there...and his brother-in-law, eminent paediatrician Malachy Griffin - a rare sight in Quirke's gloomy domain - altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause of death. It is the first time Quirke encounters Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived - and the reason she died - disturbs a dark secret that has been festering at the core of Dublin's high Catholic society, a secret ready to destabilize the very heart and soul of Quirke's own family...
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. The debut crime novel from a Booker Prize-winning author Benjamin Black. Dublin, 1950s. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law tampering with the corpse of Christine Fallsand concealing the cause of death. As Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidiousand very well guardedsecrets of Dublins high Catholic society, among them members of his own family. First printing w/ full number line; Flat-signed by the author at title page; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Near Fine, housed in protective mylar to ensure futher preservation; An exceptional copy, fit for any collector's library.
