Detective

20 hrs. 34 min.

Language Russian

Author Arthur Hailey

Narrator Dmitry Orgin

Description

“We’ll pass you on an inheritance: a completely deranged world.”

Arthur Hailey’s darkest and most unusual novel—a psychological thriller, a detective story, and, in a sense, an existential manifesto, with which the author (as it happened) seems to bring his meticulous observations of the many different aspects of human activity and society’s life to a conclusion.

Detective Malcolm Ainsley—an ex-Catholic priest—investigates a series of murders in Miami and nearby cities. The tense work pays off: the killer is identified, brought before court, and sentenced to the highest penalty.

And that’s where the story begins.

"At ten-thirty-five in the evening on January twenty-seventh, Malcolm Ainsley was already halfway out of the murder investigation department when he heard a phone call behind him. Purely instinctively, Malcolm stopped and looked back.

Later, he would more than once regret that he had done it".

The “production” context of the murder investigation department is described in detail (as always with Hailey): the routine of a police station, the work of a detective and a prosecutor, forensic methods, preparing charges, testimony in court, and so on—and so on. In this context, human destinies unfold and intertwine, covering all layers of society and a wide range of life aspirations… And the boundaries separating truth from lies, passion from duty, vice from virtue, grow ever more blurred.

For the first time, the novel is published in Russian in full, without cuts.