Walking Dead: A Crime Novel (James Pibble Mysteries) - Softcover

Dickinson, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504004884 ISBN 13: 9781504004886

Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller, 2015

Synopsis

This brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is set in the Caribbean, where a researcher becomes trapped like a rodent in a maze When it comes to his rats, David Foxe is an expert. He decides when they eat, when they exercise, when they take their medicine-and when they die. For the sake of the Company, he performs all manner of experiments on his helpless subjects, testing various drugs designed to improve the animals' nature. After a particularly grueling series of tests, he is sent on a working vacation to the Southward Islands. This Caribbean paradise is ruled by the shadowy dictator Dr. Trotter, who is said to possess demonic power and whose mother is rumored to be a witch. Foxe may be a man of science, but he now finds himself in a world governed by the occult. When a dead body is discovered in his island laboratory, Foxe becomes the key suspect and is taken prisoner. The only way to clear his name is to carry out experiments on his fellow inmates. Amid radical insurgents, crazed prisoners, and a crumbling dictatorship, Foxe must now escape this most dangerous experiment of all. "Don't miss this one." -The New York Times Book Review "Dickinson's story is ingenious." -Newsweek "Leave it to Peter Dickinson to dream up something unusual. . . . Every new book of his can be approached with anticipation." -The New York Times Book Review "A truly captivating story." -Chicago Tribune Book World "Peter Dickinson is the best thing that has happened to serious, sophisticated, witty crime fiction since Michael Innes." -The Sunday Times Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of Punch, and since then has earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for children and adults. His books have been published in several languages throughout the world. The recipient of many awards, Dickinson has been shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children's l

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Review:

“Don’t miss this one.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“Dickinson’s story is ingenious.” —Newsweek
 
“Leave it to Peter Dickinson to dream up something unusual. . . . Every new book of his can be approached with anticipation.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“A truly captivating story.” —Chicago Tribune Book World
 
“Peter Dickinson is the best thing that has happened to serious, sophisticated, witty crime fiction since Michael Innes.” —The Sunday Times
 

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'Peter Dickinson is a delight to read' Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1504004884
• ISBN 13: 9781504004886
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234