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Philip Fletcher, somewhat exhausted and not yet fully recovered from his latest bout of life-threatening misdemeanors, takes an undemanding job at the Chichester Festival to allow himself to recuperate. What could be more pleasant than to idle away a few months in the countryside at the scene of some of his greatest triumphs? But a sinister undercurrent disturbs Philip's rural idyll, and when the object of his attentions becomes the quarry of an obsessive stalker, there's once again a premium on his dubious criminal skills.
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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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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0753158302
- ISBN 13 9780753158302
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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