IN HIS latest crime novel, John Banville returns to his moody Dublin state pathologist (known only as Quirke), the hero of several earlier mysteries published under the name Benjamin Black. Having recently dispensed with the pseudonym, it seems that the author no longer makes a distinction between literary and detective fiction. Sadly, this new offering is… Read more »
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