Streetwise hero Roy Angel, faced with parenthood, has to do the unthinkable and get a job. But becoming a Private I in an all-female private detective agency isn't as easy as it sounds, especially when he has an impossible case to solve and numerous unexpected distractions along the way. But that's not the main problem. Which brave soul is going to tell Angel's fearsome hippy mother that she's soon to be a grandmother?
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"'Very, very funny' Michael Dibdin 'Mike Ripley is the prime joker in the Brit crime pack' John Connolly 'I never read Ripley on trains, planes or buses. He makes me laugh and it annoys other passengers' Minette Walters"
This book presents another hilarious adventure from the king of comedy crime. Angel, faced with impending parenthood, has to do the unthinkable and get a job. Working for Rudgard and Blugden Confidential Investigations, he has to plug the leak of stolen Botox from a supposedly secure laboratory, but he is distracted by a redhead with a passion for salsa dancing, a Russian sailor with a passion for old East German cars, an estate agent with a passion for Audrey Hepburn, and a redundant KGB officer trying to retrain as a gangster! Oh, and which brave soul is going to tell Angel's fearsome hippy mother that she's soon to be a grandmother?
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