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2.5 · 311 pages · First published 1938
An atmospheric crime thriller featuring a teenage sociopath intent on becoming the underworld boss of Brighton. Having murdered a man who had betrayed his gang the young gangster Pinky Brown tries to covers his tracks but circumstances never seem to go his way and he becomes ever more desperate, even going so far as to marry a young girl who witnessed the shooting, it being the law at that time that a man’s wife could not be forced to testify against him.
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Subjects
FictionGangstersOrganized crimePsychopathsTeenage boysFiction / GeneralGangsFiction, suspenseEngland, fictionGreene, graham, 1904-1991English fiction, history and criticism, 20th centurySocial conditionsEnglish Psychological fictionDetective and mystery storiesFiction, thrillers, suspenseBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Psychological fictionFiction, generalGreat britain, fictionGangs -- England -- Brighton -- Fiction
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- VINTAGE, BANTAM. NY 1949, THE BODLEY HEAD LTD, Penguin Books Ltd, Charnwood, Libros del Asteroide
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- und, eng, swe, spa, ita, heb, chi