by Alan Battersby · Cambridge University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521788151
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«High Life, Low Life» is the detective thriller by Alan Battersby, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback (79 pages, in English).
Private detective Nathan Marley, a former New York policeman, meets a homeless woman at Grand Central who asks him to find her missing son. The case drags him into a web of jealousy, estrangement and murder, and into a strange relationship with an eccentric, wealthy widow, as he explores the contrasts of New York.
It belongs to the Cambridge English Readers series, level 4 (intermediate), and is written in American English for students of English as a second language.
Designed for intermediate (B1) English students who want to practice reading with a short suspense story in American English.
Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (4 March 1925 – 10 February 2018) was an English organic chemist best known for his work to define the chemical intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B12 and the reaction mechanisms of the enzymes involved. His research group was also notable for its synthesis of radiolabelled precursors to study alkaloid biosynthesis and the stereochemistry of enzymic reactions. He won numerous awards including the Royal Medal in 1984 and the Copley Medal in 2000. He was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. Battersby died in February 2018 at the age of 92.
