Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called "heart of Africa". Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness.
John Harvey (author)
The first Resnick novel, "Lonely Hearts", was published in 1989, and was named by The Times as one of the "100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century". Harvey brought the series to an end in 2014 with "Darkness, Darkness", which he dramatised for the stage and which was produced at Nottingham Playhouse in 2014. Resnick has also made peripheral appearances in Harvey's new Frank Elder series.