Jack Laidlaw · Book 1
Laidlaw
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9780340207277
- Type
- novel
About this book
Laidlaw is the book that started it all: the first entry in William McIlvanney's Jack Laidlaw series, published in 1977 at 224 pages. It's followed here by The Papers of Tony Veitch, in a series that would eventually run to four books across more than four decades.
Its place in Jack Laidlaw
Laidlaw is book 1 in the Jack Laidlaw series. It is followed by The Papers of Tony Veitch. See the full Jack Laidlaw reading order.
Jack Laidlaw is a Glasgow detective who reads Camus and Kierkegaard between interrogations, drinks in the city's roughest pubs to stay fluent in its underworld, and treats every case as a moral argument he's obliged to have with himself as much as with the criminals he's chasing. William McIlvanney introduced him in Laidlaw (1977), a novel now widely credited as the founding text of Tartan Noir -- the harder, more socially and psychologically serious strain of Scottish crime writing that later produced Ian…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340207277