Fitzroy Maclean Angel's latest hair-raising adventure involves a dubious religious cult, an impoverished aristocrat with a love of classic cars and a very shady solicitor with an extremely odd wife. Not only that, but he also has to cope with rookie private eye Veronica Blugden, find out why her office is being vandalised, and discover what his bike-riding friend Crimson is up to, selling all that mysterious white powder...
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Almost before he knows it, Angel is on his latest case, which involves a dubious religious cult, an impoverished minor aristocrat with a love of classic cars, a very shady solicitor and his extremely odd wife.
And he has to cope with his new partner in detection, Veronica Blugden, the most politically incorrect female PI in London, to whom his faithful cat Springsteen has taken a violent and instant dislike.
As if this wasn't enough, Angel also undertakes to find out why Veronica's office is being vandalised and where his bike-riding friend Crimson is getting all that mysterious white powder...
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‘As always, Ripley offers sharp satirical comment on modern Britain and London in particular’
GEORGE OSGERBY,' Tribune'
Mike Ripley is the two-time winner of the Crime Writers Last Laugh award, and the author of several thrillers and historical novels. He writes a hugely respected monthly review column for Shots Magazine entitled getting Away with Murder. Philip Youngman Carter was Margery Allingham s artist husband and a novelist in his own write.
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