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The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by John Banville. Many of the characters in The Book of Evidence appear in the 1993 sequel Ghosts. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38-year-old scientist who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbour.
- John Banville
- 1989
Jan 1, 1989 · John Banville. 3.70. 5,502 ratings555 reviews. Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old man commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative.
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The book of evidence. by. Banville, John. Publication date. 1990. Topics. Murderers -- Fiction, Murderers. Publisher.
Sep 26, 2011 · First published in Great Britain in 1989 by Martin Sencker & Warburg Limited--T.p. verso.
The Book of Evidence. Written by John Banville. John Banville’s novel is the compelling confession of an unlikely killer. To what extent is this darkly poetic admission of guilt actually ‘true’? The first-person prison testimony of Freddie Montgomery - convicted for the ghastly and seemingly motiveless kidnap and murder of a young woman.
Jun 12, 2001 · MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the Booker Prize winner of The Sea comes “an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell" (The New York...
Jun 12, 2001 · The book of evidence is the confession of Frederick Charles StJohn Vanderveld Montgomery (Freddie) who has committed a double crime. When he was stealing a valuable painting from the collection of relatives, Freddie was caught by the chambermaid, and he very brutally murdered her.
- John Banville
