The Big Clock

by Kenneth Fearing by Kenneth Fearing

1st September 2025

Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9789357310796

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NEW YORK TIMES

If you enjoy top-drawer detective fiction...we can recommend this one with no reservations whatsoever

WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW

So rare a compound of irony, satire, and icy-fingered narrative

TIME

THE BIG CLOCK has it - the deadpan, make-believe sinister quality, and the terse, preposterous fancy. It is, besides, a thriller with a unique plot

WASHINGTON POST

A master of the tour de force

BOSTON GLOBE AND MAIL

[A] brilliant study in noir...deservedly a classic in its depiction of the corporate man at his most basic and disloyal