James M. Cain’s first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, was an instant bestseller. This stunning Folio edition includes noirish illustrations by Patrick Leger and a preface by film critic Steve Erickson.
The Dogs of Riga
Book 2 in the Wallander series
Illustrated by Morgan Schweitzer
Translated by Laurie Thompson
Henning Mankell’s second Wallander mystery sees the detective wrestle with conspiracy and corruption in an unfriendly country. The Folio edition of The Dogs of Riga is illustrated by Morgan Schweitzer.
$75.00
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‘Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around.’
- Observer
Kurt Wallander’s latest mystery arrives on a winter tide: two dead men in a drifting lifeboat, each shot through the chest and then carefully dressed and arranged in their floating coffin. For Wallander it seems to signal a rise in a new wave of inexplicable violence that he feels ill-equipped to deal with, so when a detective from Latvia arrives to investigate he is almost relieved. However, the frozen bodies are a harbinger of something much darker, and soon Wallander must cross the Baltic Sea to Riga, a region caught in the death throes of the Soviet Union. Grappling with espionage, surveillance and a maddeningly elusive enemy, Detective Wallander’s unceasing hunger for justice may be his best and only weapon. Widely regarded as the pinnacle of Nordic noir, Henning Mankell’s Wallander series defined much of what the genre is best known for: realism, social commentary and a relatable central hero. For Wallander’s second outing, series illustrator Morgan Schweitzer has created five exquisitely characterful illustrations and an atmospheric binding design, while this edition also includes an afterword by the author.
Bound in blocked and printed textured paper
Set in Garamond with Avenir as display
344 pages
Frontispiece and 4 full-page colour illustrations, including a double-page spread
Die-cut slipcase
Printed in Slovakia
9˝ x 5¾˝
‘Wallander is among the very best fictional crimebusters.’
- Daily Telegraph
Made famous by multiple adaptations for the screen, including the BAFTA award-winning TV series starring Kenneth Branagh, Henning Mankell’s beloved detective Wallander has won dedicated fans the world over, all drawn to these compulsive, addictive books with their precise prose and the complex, fallible man that stands at the heart of them. In her introduction for the Folio edition of Faceless Killers, Patti Smith describes Wallander as ‘a good detective in a bad world’, and this tension couldn’t be clearer in Morgan Schweitzer’s dynamic images for this first illustrated edition of The Dogs of Riga. Whether Wallander is sitting drinking coffee alone in a darkened room or hiding in the shadows from a security guard, the impression is of a man pressing on against insurmountable odds. The illustrated binding design is both chilly and chilling, conveying the freezing temperatures of the Baltic Sea and the ominous approach of a dangerous new mystery. The Folio Society edition of The Dogs of Riga is an unmissable volume in a deliciously suspenseful series; an essential read for any fan of crime fiction.
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