Run Rabbits Run!: The Slingsby Murders Vol. 1 - Softcover

Mann, David Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1790297982 ISBN 13: 9781790297986

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

THE SITUATION: Maggie Slingsby is a crime-writer, in her fifties, personable, divorced, with a weakness for handsome villains. The attempts of her antagonist, the world-weary and saturnine Inspector Thompson, to exclude her from his investigations are countered by the infatuation of Buffy Frobisher, the elderly Chief Constable, and his admiration of her novels. Will Thompson’s own ruse to keep tabs on Maggie by instructing his sergeant, Crabtree, to court her amanuensis, Lorraine, in despite of the cynicism of the other principals, flower into real love? THE PLOT: In the first volume of this series, when a demonstration against the Animal Science Laboratory turns sour and then her friend Florence the wife of the Professor of Classics receives an exploding rabbit through the post, Maggie finds herself drawn into investigating the less-attractive underbelly of the University of Lanchester and its internal politics. Could an apparent suicide really be murder? Did Florence really fall down the stairs to her death? And why does the Dean of Science keep a pair of medieval shackles in the back of his car?David Albert Mann combines humour, satire and suspense in this racy and gripping version of the classic detective story, with a shrewd eye for human foibles, and a range of memorable characters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1790297982
• ISBN 13: 9781790297986
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Mann Carole
• Number of pages: 299