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Book

Elegy for April : a novel

Call Number

  • MYSTERY BLAC (CEN)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.

Physical Description

293 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Garret Quirke, a hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist, is determined to find his daughter Phobe Griffin's best friend, April Latimer, a well-connected young doctor. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. Set in Dublin, circa 1950.

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