The Existential Detective - Softcover

Thompson, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178463011X ISBN 13: 9781784630119

Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

William Blake is a private detective. When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the where-abouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers of deceptions and disappearances that lead him inexorably back to an unsolved mystery in his own past: the loss of his young daughter Emily. The case takes Will to brothels, nightclubs and amusement arcades in the Scottish seaside resort of Portobello. Identities become con-fused as his sexual obsession with a nightclub singer becomes entwined with sightings of Louise, his own torturous memories, and new visions of the lost Emily. The Existential Detective is a surreal, dreamlike story of loss, incest and what it means to remember.

About this title

About the Author:

Alice Thompson is an award-winning, high-profile author with an international reach and extensive publication record as a novelist and reviewer; she is also an experienced tutor in both creative writing and literature. In the eighties she toured the world in the successful pop group The Woodentops; recorded three albums, six singles, and two videos; performed on stage and often gave interviews, both on TV and radio. This is her sixth novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 178463011X
• ISBN 13: 9781784630119
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184