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‘Splendid moments in this entertaining mystery’
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‘A thoroughly engaging investigator’
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‘Few writers in the genre today have Hill’s gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace’
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PI can mean many things, but can it really mean a balding, middle-agd redundant lathe operator from a high rise in Luton, Beds? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can. His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you’d have to be crazy to hire him, and Joe’s current clients certainly fit the bill. One seems to be confessing to the brutal murder of his whole family; another thinks she’s a witch. Alongside them, the two heavies who believe Joe is hiding their illicit drugs seem almost normal.
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0708933688
- ISBN 13 9780708933688
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages464
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