num_pages: 224
description: Murray Kirk runs his private investigation agency like the business it 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...
language: English
title: The Eighth Circle
titlecomplete: The Eighth Circle
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Crime
ratings_count: 135
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Countryman Press