The Eighth Circle (Crime Masterworks, #35) (Murder Room)

by Stanley Ellin

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Murray Kirk runs his private investigation agency like the business it is: he isn't interested in justice or crusades, just the profit and loss account. When he's asked to act for a young policeman accused of bribery, because he knows something about police corruption in New York City, he isn't too keen. He just can't see the profit - until he meets the man's fiancee. And then Kirk's motives become uncomfortably confused, and he finds himself descending swiftly into a grey world of bookmakers, gangsters, grafters and corrupt politicians, a world where setting up an honest cop is all in a day's work...
  • ISBN10 0752853309
  • ISBN13 9780752853307
  • Publish Date 1 June 2003 (first published 1 June 1981)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Out of Print 18 October 2003
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Orion
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English