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Another wonderfully funny, satirical and blackly comedic novel from the highly acclaimed Simon Shaw, whose Philip Fletcher series is fast becoming addictive.
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‘Combines an excellent murder story with equally excellent satire... Simon Shaw’s grasp of the psychological possibilities of bad behaviour is as impressive as that of Ruth Rendell’
Harriet Waugh, Literary Review
Philip Fletcher, not yet fully recovered from his latest bout of life-threatening misdemeanours, takes a recuperative, undemanding job at the Chichester Festival for the summer season. What could be more pleasant (he reasons) that to idle away a relaxing few months in the countryside at the scene of some of his greatest triumphs?
But Fletcher's rural idyll is disturbed by an undercurrent of sinister goings-on, and with two obsessive stalkers on the loose – not to mention that unspeakable loathsome and utterly untalented thespian, Richard Jones – there's once again a premium on his dubious criminal skills. And in the ominous quiet of the Sussex countryside, the hunter soon becomes the hunted...
"Simon Shaw's creation, Philip Fletcher, is one of the joys of crime fiction"
SUSANNA YAGER, 'Sunday Telegraph'
"It's possible that there's a funnier and blacker writer that Simon Shaw, but if so I don't know of one – First rate, funny and with an evil wit"
CRIME TIME
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- PublisherCollins Crime
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0002325837
- ISBN 13 9780002325837
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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