Let the dead lie : a novel / Malla Nunn.
By: Nunn, Malla.
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BookPublisher: New York : Washington Square Press, 2010Edition: 1st Washington Square Press pbk. ed.Description: vi, 382 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781416586227 (pbk.); 1416586229.Subject(s): Private investigators -- South Africa -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | South Africa -- Fiction | Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction | South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction | Private investigators -- Fiction | Homicide -- Fiction | South Africa -- Fiction | Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction | South Africa -- History -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Mystery fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Mystery fiction.DDC classification: 823/.92 | [Fic] Summary: Ex-detective Emmanuel Cooper, working undercover on the docks of Durban, South Africa, in the 1950s to ferret out police corruption, discovers the murdered body of a young messenger boy, and two subsequent killings make him the prime suspect in a case that has international repercussions.
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Ex-detective Emmanuel Cooper, working undercover on the docks of Durban, South Africa, in the 1950s to ferret out police corruption, discovers the murdered body of a young messenger boy, and two subsequent killings make him the prime suspect in a case that has international repercussions.
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