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A Shot in the Dark - 'a sheer delight' DAILY MAIL

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Zusatztext A Shot in the Dark couples suspense with dark hilarity ... The funniest crime novel of 2018 Informationen zum Autor Lynne Truss is a columnist, writer and broadcaster whose book on punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves was an international bestseller. She has written extensively for radio, and is the author of six previous novels, as well as a non-fiction account ( Get Her Off the Pitch! ) of her four years as a novice sportswriter for The Times . On radio, she is currently engaged in writing a continuing sequence of short stories for Radio 4 entitled Life at Absolute Zero . Her columns have appeared in the Listener , The Times , the Sunday Telegraph and Saga . She lives in Sussex and London with two dogs. Klappentext Guardian Crime Book of the Month WINNER OF THE CRIMEFEST LAST LAUGH AWARD _______________ 'A giddy spell of sheer delight' Daily Mail 'Ingenious ' Sunday Times Crime Club 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 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. A sparkling historical mystery set in sunny Sussex by the sea, perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Robert Thorogood and Elly Griffiths. _______________ 'Entertaining' Observer 'Will make you laugh out loud' Sunday Times 'Truss can work miracles' Telegraph Vorwort 'More Marx Brothers than Agatha Christie, this is crime fiction turned on its head - a giddy spell of sheer delight' Daily Mail Zusammenfassung 'More Marx Brothers than Agatha Christie, this is crime fiction turned on its head – a giddy spell of sheer delight' Daily Mail...

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Authors Lynne Truss, Truss Lynne
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.05.2023
 
EAN 9781526666963
ISBN 978-1-5266-6696-3
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 128 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
Series A Constable Twitten Mystery
Subjects Fiction > Suspense

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

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