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1. readingmattersblog.com › 2022/03/12 › elegy-for‘Elegy for April’ by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)

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   Mar 12, 2022 · Set in Dublin in the 1950s, this richly atmospheric tale focuses on the mysterious disappearance of a junior doctor, April Latimer, and explores what might have happened to her. Was she murdered, or did she stage her own disappearance? And regardless of the scenario, what caused her to vanish?

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3. www.goodreads.com › book › showElegy for April (Quirke, #3) by Benjamin Black | Goodreads

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   Jan 1, 2010 · Quirke — the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist — is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor. April Latimer has vanished.

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   Elegy for April. 3/3 Quirke and Phoebe expose an ugly secret as they search for Phoebe's missing friend. The Silver Swan. 2/3 Quirke investigates Dublin's drug culture when he struggles...

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   Apr 13, 2010 · Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman.

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   Oct 5, 2021 · His latest novel, April in Spain, is another absorbing and fascinating mystery that finds Irish pathologist, Dr Quirke, on holiday with his wife in sun-drenched and atmospheric Spain. He thinks he recognises a young Irish woman that was presumed dead.

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Quirke_(series)Quirke (series) - Wikipedia

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   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.

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   Was Quirke Dublin a follow-up to Elegy for April?

   • But while I recognised the connections with his Quirke Dublin series penned under his crime-writing pseudonym, Benjamin Black, and his magnificent locked room mystery Snow, I failed to see that it was basically a follow-up to his novel Elegy for April, published more than a decade ago.

   ‘Elegy for April’ by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)

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   How does Quirke discover a secret?

   • A young woman's death leads Quirke to uncover a secret in Dublin's high Catholic society. Quirke investigates Dublin's drug culture when he struggles to explain a sudden death (2/3). Quirke and Phoebe expose an ugly secret as they search for Phoebe's missing friend (3/3).

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   Is Quirke's Imagination Running Away?

   • On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it's hard at first to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him.

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   Who wrote the Quirke series?

   • 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:

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   Why did Quirke go to Spain?

   • She was murdered by her brother, years ago—the conclusion to an unspeakable scandal that shook one of Ireland's foremost political dynasties. Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke makes a call back home to Ireland and soon Detective St. John Strafford is dispatched to Spain. But he's not the only one en route.

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9. www.librarything.com › work › 9439125Elegy for April by Benjamin Black - LibraryThing

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   Quirke, a hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist is determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman.