Dirty Tricks

by Michael Dibdin, Jane Chelius (Editor)

Back in his native England after twenty years abroad, Tim, an ESL teacher, falls in love with the very married Karen, but when Karen's husband, Dennis, conveniently drowns, Tim and Karen become murder suspects. Reprint.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lived in Seattle. After completing his first novel, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in 1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen.

Dibdin was married three times, most recently to the novelist K. K. Beck. His death in 2007 followed a short illness.

Series:
* Aurelio Zen