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Name: Strange loyalties
Author: William McIlvanney

📘 Strange loyalties by William McIlvanney

Detective Inspector Jack Laidlaw blunders his way through ruined lives and frustrated relationships investigating his brother's murder and a drug pusher in Glasgow.

First publish date: 1991

Authors: William McIlvanney

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