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Irish crime novels From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quirke series of crime novels, written by Irish novelist John Banville under the pen name Benjamin Black, centres on the titular character, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin. The series is published by Henry Holt & Co. in the US. The first novel, Christine Falls, was first released by Picador in the UK in 2006; it was published in the US a year later.
Banville has stated that he drew from his experiences when he first moved to Dublin to inform the Quirke series:
Quirke lives in the apartment in Dublin which I inherited from my aunt and he moves around in that area where I was when I first moved to Dublin. He's better off than we were in those days, but yes, it's soaked in my recollections. It is more connected to the circumstances of my life than my Banville books.[1]
The eighth novel and ninth novels in the series, April in Spain and The Lock-Up," feature investigator St. John Strafford, a "Big House" Protestant, who is also a character in other Banville works.[2][3] These two novels are published under Banville's name rather than his pen name, Benjamin Black.
The Drowned, the tenth novel in the series, is slated for publication in October 2024.
A three-part miniseries based on the novels stars Gabriel Byrne as Quirke. The series first aired on RTÉ One in Ireland in early 2014, and later that year on BBC One in the UK.[4]
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