Derek Raymond Books In Order

Factory Books In Order

  1. He Died with His Eyes Open (1976)
  2. The Devil’s Home on Leave (1984)
  3. How the Dead Live (1986)
  4. I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
  5. Dead Man Upright (1993)

Novels

  1. The Crust on Its Uppers (1962)
  2. The Legacy of the Stiff Upper Lip (1966)
  3. Public Parts and Private Places (1967)
  4. A State of Denmark (1970)
  5. The Tenants of Dirt Street (1971)
  6. Hidden Files (1992)
  7. Not Till the Red Fog Rises (1994)
  8. Nightmare in the Street (2006)

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Derek Raymond Books Overview

He Died with His Eyes Open

‘A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme.’ Guardian

When a middle aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a tough talking cynic from the Department of Unexplained Deaths. Our narrator must piece together the history of his blighted existence and discover the agents of its cruel end. What he doesn’t expect is that digging for the truth will demand plenty of lying. The first volume in the Factory series, He Died with His Eyes Open is a gripping introduction to Raymond’s bleak, nihilistic world.

The Devil’s Home on Leave

A man’s corpse is discovered in a London warehouse, bundled into five shopping bags. Our nameless narrator from the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met is put on the case. As he probes a world of horror in South London, a terrible secret from his own past emerges, and he uncovers much more than the murderer.

Derek Raymond is the father of British noir and much admired by a new generation of crime writers. He died in 1994.

How the Dead Live

‘A sulphurous mixture of ferocious violence and high fl own philosophy.’ Prospect

The third novel in the acclaimed Factory crime series sees Derek Raymond’s nameless detective leave London for a remote village, where he’s meant to be investigating the disappearance of a local doctor’s wife.

A fitting successor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis, with an introduction by Will Self. High profile fans include Ian Rankin and James Sallis.

Robin Cook was born in 1931. He reinvented himself as Derek Raymond and died in London in 1994.

I Was Dora Suarez

Everything about I Was Dora Suarez shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far. The New York Times’For those who want some truly dark noir that will make most wince, you won’t find a much darker ride through the human condition than this one.’ Bookgasm. comAn ax wielding psychopath cares young Dora Suarez into pieces. On the same night in London, a firearm blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part owner of the seedy Parallel Club. The unnamed narrator, a police sergeant, becomes fixated on Dora and is determined to solve her murder. Then a photo links Suarez to Roatta, and inquiries at the club reveal how vile and inhuman exploitation can become. Derek Raymond’s real name was Robin Cook. He died in London in 1994.

The Crust on Its Uppers

Those who search for brilliantly written mystery novels exchange the same few names when they meet names unknown except for Chandler and Hammett to general literary readers. If you’re one of those seekers you know Derek Raymond, author of bleak yet intriguing, compellingly narrated novels of murder in England. Raymond’s forgotten first novel, The Crust on Its Uppers is a great oddity. Puncture

Derek Raymond was born in 1931. His novels include How the Dead Live, I Was Dora Suarez, and A State of Denmark, also published by Serpent’s Tail. Derek Raymond died in 1995.

A State of Denmark

Raymond’s novel is rooted firmly in the dystopian vision of Orwell and Huxley, sharing their air of horrifying hopelessness. Sunday Times It is the 1960s. England has become a dictatorship, governed by a sly, ruthless politician called Jobling. All non whites have been deported, The English Times is the only newspaper, and ordinary people live in dread of nightly curfews and secret police. Derek Raymond s skill is to make all too plausible the transition from complacent democracy to dictatorship in a country preoccupied by consumerism and susceptible to media spin.

Nightmare in the Street

A legendary crime novelist. The Sunday Times A plainclothes cop in Paris, Kleber is forty years old and devoted to his young wife, Elenya, a former prostitute whom he rescued from her pimp. He is embittered by twenty two years on the streets, and his sleep is haunted by dreams of death. Kleber has many enemies, and only one friend: a criminal named Mark. When Kleber is suspended from the police force for punching a fellow officer, his underworld enemies seize their chance to get even.

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