# SLOOT

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- Book: [SLOOT](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-macpherson/sloot) ([SLOOT.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-macpherson/sloot.md))
- Authors: [Ian Macpherson](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-macpherson)
- Publisher: Bluemoose Books
- ISBN: 978-19-1042-253-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2019-10-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A post-postmodern crime novel set on the clean streets of Dublin’s leafiest suburb, Sloot has at its heart an accidental detective who’d rather write his own Celtic-screwball-noir than solve the crime, and a narrator who loses the plot. Literally. Sound complicated? Not so. Thanks to a revolutionary structure, The Inquisitive Bullet, it’s simplicity itself. Detours include proof that psychoanalysis is the oldest profession, validation of the dictum `For what is comedy but tragedy with loose trousers’, and a brief aside on the possibility of an Irishman having multiple birth mothers. While the plot bullet speeds, inquisitively, towards its target – the final full stop.