Mr. Dixon Disappears: A Mobile Library Mystery: 2 - Softcover

Sansom, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060822538 ISBN 13: 9780060822538

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2007

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2007-06-26 Pages: 257 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Mr. Dixon a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians. has gone missing-along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash Israel Armstrong. bighearted and overly inquisitive. . should stick to delivering library books to out-of-the-way readers and not get involved in the investigation. But of course. he cant help himself-which costs him his job and earns him a place of dishonor among the polices prime suspects . Can Israel clear his name and get his van back Will the exhibition of old local photos hes been driving around County Antrim offer clues to Mr. Ds whereabouts And is a romance in the offing with winsome barmaid Rosie Hart All will be revealed!

About this title

Review:

"the great pleasure in this romp derives from Israel's glum-in-his-Guinness rueful world view..."--Washington Post

"blissful British comedies for the intellectual escapist"--London Times

"[a] comic masterpiece"--The Belfast Telegraph

About the Author:

Ian Sansom is the author of 10 books of fiction and non-fiction. He is a former Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a former Writer-in-Residence at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 and he writes for The Guardian and The London Review of Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060822538
• ISBN 13: 9780060822538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272