AND HERE COMES CRIME!
Billany for Villainy
THE OPERA HOUSE MURDERS by Dan Billany (Faber and Faber) is a find. I can remember no first novel in the crime field that has been so much in a class by itself. The murder is committed in front of the reader’s eyes in the first two minutes, the rest is excitement and detection. Mr. Billany’s style, light-hearted, a trifle callous, semi-cynical, fits perfectly the amoral people he is dealing with. “Billany for Villainy” should become Mr. Faber’s war-cry.
Manchester Evening News 27th September 1940
THE WHISPERING is Dan Billany’s follow up book to the Opera House Murders, once again featuring Robbie Duncan.
There’s a fair in the field next to Granby House, the sun is shining, and the lawnmower’s broken. With his wife, Mary, the world’s most beautiful soprano and his stepson Jack, Robbie joins the rest of Banham sipping lemonade and eating scones, jam and scalded cream. The roundabouts are set in motion and the music plays, and Robbie finds himself on a ride he can’t get off.
THE WHISPERING by DAN BILLANY
Another action-packed thriller from the pen of Dan Billany. Another dramatic adventure featuring Robbie Duncan, that reckless devil-may-care detective with his unconventional approach to crime solving.
Here we have the same racy style as we met in The Opera House Murders. All the elements are here – murder galore, stolen jewels, a glamorous blonde, a suspicious vicar, a bevy of crooks, a kidnapped child, an escaped lion and at the heart of it all, the Whisperer! There’s enough action to satisfy the most ardent fan, with Robbie at the centre needing all his courage and strength to cope with the desperate situations the plot throws at him.
Through those sections narrated by himself, Robbie’s strong personality shines: his sardonic sense of humour, his cool approach to danger, his ingenuity in outwitting both the criminals and the police, together with his (and Dan’s) opinions of life, politics, education, and even literature. The plotting is superb; the action breath-taking in its speed and drama; it is a real page-turner.
V Showan and V A Reeves
Authors of : Dan Billany. Hull’s Lost Hero
November 2007.
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