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Benjamin Black

Books by Benjamin Black

Christine Falls

by Benjamin Black
- Paperback, 352 pages
The Silver Swan

by Benjamin Black
- Hardcover, 290 pages

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Crime In The City

Sleuthing Around Dublin's Darkest Corners

O'Connell Street, 1952: Dublin in the 1950s is "perfect noir territory" says writer John Banville (who writes crime fiction under the pen name Benjamin Black). The city's dark history is incorporated into his work. "I am a novelist and therefore a cannibal," he says. "I eat whatever comes near me. Everything is material."

September 2, 2011 John Banville (who writes crime fiction under the pen name Benjamin Black) describes the exploits of his oddball sleuth named Quirke. His plots are set in Dublin, a city that lends itself to noir fiction. "I love this place in a strange, embittered kind of way," Black says.

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'Silver Swan' Marks a Switch to Mystery for Banville

April 7, 2008 Award-winning Irish novelist John Banville has written 14 novels. He has been called "one of the finest living writers of English-language prose." But he recently has been writing mysteries under another name — Benjamin Black. His new noir novel is called The Silver Swan.

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