The Isaac Quartet: Blue Eyes, Marilyn the Wild, the Education of Patrick Silver, Secret Isaac

by Jerome Charyn

Book Overview

The Isaac Quartet contains four detective stories from an internationally acclaimed master of the genre. Blue Eyes, the first book in Jerome Charyn's legendary crime series, introduces Isaac Sidel -- the toughest, most incorruptible police inspector in the biz. In Marilyn the Wild, Isaac confronts the hot-headed daughter of the first deputy police commissioner. The Education of Patrick Silver tells the story of a giant shoeless Irishman who becomes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568582285
• ISBN13: 9781568582283
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

an undiscovered genius

jerome charyn is the proper heir to dashiell hammett and ross macdonald. a complex writer with an ear for the music in language.

phew

I haven't read the whole quartet yet, but Charyn's novels are dark abstract fantasies, and I love them. I started a few years ago with Maria's Girls, and had trouble finding any other Charyn novels after that. Sometimes they can be hard going but stick with it they are worth while. All the characters are obscurely eccentric and inhabit an exotic almost halucenogenic world.I can't recommend them enough. Charyn is a genius. Buy them and be amazed.