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Declan Hughes

デクラン・ヒューズ

Dekuran Hyūzu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1963
Nationality
Irish
Languages
English
Residence History
Dublin

Career

Occupations
novelist, playwright, screenwriter
Active Years
1990-2024
Affiliations
Abbey Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin
Influenced By
Dashiell Hammett

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Wrong Kind of Blood

2006 crime novel

First in the Ed Loy detective series.

Irish American detectivecrimenoir

All the Dead Voices

2009 crime novel

Ed Loy series.

past traumafamily secrets

All the Things You Are

2014 crime novel

Most recent novel.

relationshipsloss

Bibliography

  • I Can't Get Started (1990, play)
  • Digging for Fire (1991, play)
  • New Morning (1992, play)
  • Hallowe'en Night (1992, play)
  • Love and a Bottle (1992, play)
  • Twenty Grand (1998, play)
  • The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006, novel)
  • The Colour of Blood (2007, novel)
  • Dying Breed (2008, novel)
  • The Price of Blood (2008, novel)
  • All the Dead Voices (2009, novel)
  • City of Lost Girls (2010, novel)
  • All the Things You Are (2014, novel)
  • Shiver (2003, play)
  • The Last Summer (2012, play)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
noir styledialogue-driven
Recurring Motifs
Irish underbellyfamily dysfunctiondetective noir

Legacy

Known for Irish crime novels featuring detective Ed Loy, and associated with Abbey Theatre.

Trivia

  • The detective Ed Loy's surname 'Loy' is a homage to the Irish spade and Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon.