Archive for September 11, 2010
LET THE DEAD LIE by Malla Nunn
Swaziland-born Nunn’s second 1950s South Africa novel, LET THE DEAD LIE, opens with a prologue in 1945. Series protagonist Emmanuel Cooper, a major in the South African army at the time, comes across a murdered washerwoman in a Paris doorway and immediately abandons the night’s pleasures to stay with the body until the police arrive: “…it was an insult to abandon a body in a city where law and order had been restored.” The main narrative opens in May 1953 in Durban and while Cooper remains true to his convictions, his life has gotten more difficult.
September 11, 2010
Tags: 1950s, 2010 PB Release, Around-the-World, Foreign Detective, Sleuth Posted in: Book Club Choice, Class - Race - Gender, Noir, Sleuths Series, South Africa, World Literature 
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