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Let the dead lie / Malla Nunn.

By: Nunn, Malla Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : Macmillan, 2010Description: 392 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781405039208 (pbk.)Subject(s): Murder -- Investigation -- South Africa -- Fiction | Durban (South Africa) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: CRIME & MYSTERY. From the award-winning author of 'A Beautiful Place To Die' comes the next sensational instalment featuring charismatic detective Emmanuel Cooper Durban, South Africa, 1953: Forced to resign from his position of Detective Sergeant and re-classified as 'mixed race' after an incident involving a young black woman, Emmanuel Cooper winds up powerless and alone in the tough coastal city of Durban, mixing labouring with surveillance work for his old boss, Major van Niekerk. Patrolling the freight yards one night, he stumbles upon the body of a young white boy and the detective in him cannot, or will not, walk away. When two more bodies are discovered at his boarding house, he unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in a triple murder case.

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Cover subtitle: A Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper novel.

CRIME & MYSTERY. From the award-winning author of 'A Beautiful Place To Die' comes the next sensational instalment featuring charismatic detective Emmanuel Cooper Durban, South Africa, 1953: Forced to resign from his position of Detective Sergeant and re-classified as 'mixed race' after an incident involving a young black woman, Emmanuel Cooper winds up powerless and alone in the tough coastal city of Durban, mixing labouring with surveillance work for his old boss, Major van Niekerk. Patrolling the freight yards one night, he stumbles upon the body of a young white boy and the detective in him cannot, or will not, walk away. When two more bodies are discovered at his boarding house, he unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in a triple murder case.

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