A Shot in the Dark - A Constable Twitten Mystery

WINNER OF THE CRIMEFEST LAST LAUGH AWARD 2019 The charming first novel in a new comic crime series, from one of Britain's most-loved writers, the incomparable Lynne Truss 'More Marx Brothers than Agatha Christie, this is crime fiction turned on its head - a giddy spell of sheer delight ' Daily Mail Brighton, 1957. Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman by the sea. No criminals, no crime, no stress.So it's really rather annoying when an ambitious - not to mention irritating - new constable shows up to work and starts investigating a series of burglaries. And it's even more annoying when, after Constable Twitten is despatched to the theatre for the night, he sits next to a vicious theatre critic who is promptly shot dead part way through the opening night of a new play.It seems Brighton may be in need of a police force after all.

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A farce that gathers hilarious pace with every page . More Marx Brothers than Agatha Christie, this is crime fiction turned on its head - a giddy spell of sheer delight Daily Mail

Product details

• Authors: Lynne Truss, Truss Lynne
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781408890486
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-9048-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: An Inspector Twitten Mystery; Constable Twitten; 192 POCHE; A Constable Twitten Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical mysteries, Humour, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, South and South East England