- Taschenbuch: 570 Seiten
- Verlag: Corgi; Auflage: New edition (2. Juli 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0552143766
- ISBN-13: 978-0552143769
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,4 x 11,4 x 4,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (42 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 405.315 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Miami police department detective Malcolm Ainslie is almost out the bureau door when he takes one last call. It's the chaplain at Raiford Prison. Elroy Doil, a convicted serial killer awaiting execution, wants Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, to hear his final confession. Doil admits to another 10 murders, but he insists he didn't kill city commissioner Ernst and his cop daughter. In spite of Doil's obvious madness, Ainslie believes him and sets about to answer the obvious question: If not Doil, who? The investigation has to start with surviving daughter Cynthia Ernst, Ainslie's former lover and now a superior officer within the department. Hailey, who lives on the best-seller lists, is likely to find himself there once again with this engrossing thriller. There's nothing fancy here, just Hailey doing what he does best: develop a topical plot; move it forward with identifiable, carefully drawn characters; and present a satisfying, logical, and exciting conclusion. Highly entertaining fare. Wes Lukowsky
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From Kirkus Reviews
Hailey (The Evening News, 1990, etc.) makes a welcome return to form with an effectively twisty thriller. On the eve of his execution, serial killer Elroy Doil calls in Malcolm Ainslie, the priest turned Miami detective who put him on death row. In a last confession, the doomed man (suspected of fourteen ritual homicides but convicted of only four) confides that, while he committed most of the murders, there are two victims on Ainslie's list that he did not kill. Although happy to clear the books of many gruesome slayings, the cleric (a scholar whose knowledge of the Book of Revelations led him to Doil) is disturbed enough to reopen the case. The odd casualties out are the politically powerful parents of Cynthia Ernst, until recently an aggressive, ambitious policewoman with whom Malcolm (despite being happily married and the father of a small child) had a torrid affair. Patiently sifting through mounds of evidence old and new, he's eventually able to prove the headline-grabbing butchery of the couple was indeed a copycat murder. He also has enough on his erstwhile paramour to get her indicted. This outcome could prove politically as well as personally embarrassing, since vengeful Cynthia has taken her late father's seat on the city's board of supervisors and used her clout to block Malcolm's promotion from sergeant to lieutenant. How Hailey resolves these conflicts while ensuring that the guilty pay makes for a suspenseful windup as effective as it is cynical. There's also a credible turn at the close as the less than saintly Malcolm weighs a career switch. A police procedural plus, powerfully infused with southern Florida's violent neo-Cuban ambience, and a work that could earn the veteran author a host of new fans. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Much as in James Michener's more sweeping novels, Arthur Hailey always lards his text with systematic insider research, here seldom seen details about police crime solving. That is good or bad depending on how much uplifting instruction and provocative thought, or immersion in suspense, you seek in a mystery. Actually, we learn all about the crimes long before the ending, so one has to focus on the working out of the many personal relationships and betrayals in this long story. The crimes are old-fashioned but the detection methods are up to date. The story is engrossing, the crimes shocking and convoluted, the killers are fully developed, and the details informative of police lives and outlooks. We shall never see the complex and sympathetic Detective Ainslie again--because Hailey doesn't write series--but, as always in his books, you come away knowing more of how things are run "behind the scenes" and of the attitudes of the team specialists involved.
The plot is a little too pat and the prose flat and distant, but is cumulatively moving. Hailey indulges in flashback tricks, and one can almost see the author's notecards on police procedures, execution, Church history(!), and the failings of the juvenile justice and grand jury systems.
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I am guessing that the author had promised the publisher a book and was not prepared to write one so hd just dashed something off without doing any research. I wonder if he used a ghost writer since I felt that this book was so far below any of his other works. As has been previously mentioned the book does not indicate any knowledge of police procedures. It also frequently talks down to the reader, assuming a third grade education apparently. I hope that this book will brove to be unique and that the author will return to the fairly high quality standard that he has observed in the past. His past works such as Hotel and Airport taught me a lot about the subject. This one is very misleading, in my humble opinion.
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I highly enjoyed reading Arthur Hailey's latest book. I have read all his books and this one definitely comes on top with flying colours.
A superb book. Mr. Hailey, hats off.
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A Story
This is a detective story. Written with style and panache and the way a good mystery/thriller should be. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Februar 2000 von Nick Booth
Intense and Keeping it Real
I loved the book. I have never been much of a reader. If the book doesn't interest me, I never finnish chapter 3! I read this in 3 days! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Januar 2000 von Meredith A. Holman
chapter 4, part three, was worth the whole book
Although French-speaking, I read most of my novels in English. And Arthur Hailey has always been one of my favorites. Not perfect, (who is) but he knows how to thread a plot. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Dezember 1999 von pierre gauthier
Started out good.
I liked the first part of the book, then I got tired of it. It was really 2 or 3 stories in one. I especially didn't like the middle part of the book but the end got better.
Am 6. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Ignore the nit-picking reviews, this is a good read
Yes, Hailey deals with religion. But as an author deals with any necessary device: convincingly. "Detective" is a solid piece of artistic hard work, showing every... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. September 1999 veröffentlicht
A View from India
I have been a Arthur Hailey fan for the last 4 years. While I have immensely enjoyed most of his works, Detective was not a particularly satisfying book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. August 1999 veröffentlicht
CLASSIC HAILEY-- EASY READING
I FOUND "THE DETECTIVE" TO BE AS GOOD AS ALL OF THE OTHER HAILEY BOOKS AND I HAVE READ THEM ALL!! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Not an attack on religion
I did not view this book as an attack on christianity or catholicism. I thought this was a good book about a man who lost his faith. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. August 1999 veröffentlicht
A Good Read!
After having read all of the reviews above, I simply want to state that this is a good story -- despite what other people claim is anti-Christian, anti-juvenile criminal, etc. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Hailey should not be judge so harshly!
This book was outstanding regardless of the whole anti-christian thing. Why can't Cristians just take in the fact that some of what was said is true. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. April 1999 veröffentlicht
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