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The Eighth CircleStanley Ellin

The Eighth Circle

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From Goodreads: "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…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2004
    Orion mass market paperback · 256 pages · 9780752853314
  • Other · English · 1981
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 224 pages · 9780914378679
  • Other · English · 1979
    Gregg Press · 210 pages · 9780839825326
Fiction, mystery & detective, generalFictionMystery and detectiveEdgar Award