num_pages: 256
description: A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers around.When the nameless narrator embarks upon an affair with Karen, a seemingly vapid P.E. teacher married to a boring accountant, he does not know her fetish is for adultery while her husband is in the room or loitering nearby. But once he finds out, he doesn’t care. He has been abroad for twenty years, and since his return to merry old England he’s been startlingly uninhibited by morals or a conscience. Which is not only why he eventually gets involved with blackmail, a kidnapping, and two murders, but also how, with hilariously syllogistic logic, he’s able to justify his role in all of it.
language: English
title: Dirty Tricks
titlecomplete: Dirty Tricks
genres: Novels, Noir, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Italy, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, 20th Century
ratings_count: 530
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 2. Platz International
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard