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Flaxborough Mystery Plaster Sinners Book 11
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Author : Colin Watson
language : en
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Release Date : 2018-07-12
Flaxborough Mystery Plaster Sinners Book 11 written by Colin Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with Fiction categories.
Sergeant Love finds himself literally knocked out by a little plaster cottage at Flaxborough's antiques auction. DI Purbright must dig deep into the past of the local gentry to find out how the picture leads to heirlooms and murder. Witty and wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast and laugh-out-loud wordplay.
Blue Murder
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Author : Colin Watson
language : en
Publisher: Prelude Books
Release Date : 2018-06-28
Blue Murder written by Colin Watson and has been published by Prelude Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-28 with Fiction categories.
A peculiar pornographic movie has been wowing viewers in the Gulf. One of the more scurrilous English Sunday papers gets a tip-off that this exotic blue production stars respected residents of the coastal town of Flaxborough, and a team led by the well-known investigative journalist Clive Grail arrives in a Rolls Royce. Word of the looming scandal soon gets out and the town’s quixotic mayor, Alderman Charlie Hockley, spurred on by the loan of some antique duelling pistols, issues a challenge to Grail! DI Purbright’s stern warning falls on deaf ears, but before the duel can take place a far more sinister fatality occurs... Witty and a little wicked, Colin Watson’s tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay. What people are saying about the Flaxborough series: "Colin Watson wrote the best English detective stories ever. They work beautifully as whodunnits but it's really the world he creates and populates ... and the quality of the writing which makes these stories utterly superior." "The Flaxborough Chronicles are satires on the underbelly of English provincial life, very well observed, very funny and witty, written with an apt turn of phrase ... A complete delight." "If you have never read Colin Watson - start now. And savour the whole series." "Light-hearted, well written, wickedly observed and very funny - the Flaxborough books are a joy. Highly recommended." "How English can you get? Watson's wry humour, dotty characters, baddies who are never too bad, plots that make a sort of sense. Should I end up on a desert island Colin Watson's books are the ones I'd want with me." "A classic of English fiction... Yes, it is a crime novel, but it is so much more. Wonderful use of language, wry yet sharp humour and a delight from beginning to end." "Colin Watson threads some serious commentary and not a little sadness and tragedy within his usual excellent satire on small town morality and eccentricities." "Re-reading it now, I am struck by just how many laugh-out-loud moments it contains. A beautifully written book." "As always, hypocricy and skulduggery are rife, and the good do not necessarily emerge triumphant. Set aside plenty of time to read this book - you won't want to put it down once you've started it!" "Colin Watson writes in such an understated, humorous way that I follow Inspector Purbright's investigation with a smile on my face from start to finish." "If you enjoy classic mysteries with no graphic violence and marvellously well drawn characters then give the Flaxborough series a try - you will not be disappointed." Editorial reviews: "Watson has an unforgivably sharp eye for the ridiculous." New York Times "Flaxborough is Colin Watson's quiet English town whose outward respectability masks a seething pottage of greed, crime and vice ... Mr Watson wields a delightfully witty pen dripped in acid." Daily Telegraph "Arguably the best of comic crime writers, delicately treading the line between wit and farce ... Funny, stylish and good mysteries to boot." Time Out "A great lark, full of preposterous situations and pokerfaced wit." Cecil Day-Lewis "One of the best. As always with Watson, the writing is sharp and stylish and wickedly funny!" Literary Review "The rarest of comic crime writers, one with the gift of originality." Julian Symons "Flaxborough, that olde-worlde town with Dada trimmings." Sunday Times
Plaster Sinners
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Author : Colin Watson
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1980
Plaster Sinners written by Colin Watson and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Plaster Sinners
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Author : Colin Watson
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-04-15
Plaster Sinners written by Colin Watson and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with categories.
The appreciation of antique objects is not perhaps Detective Sergeant Sidney Love's forte, yet his critical appraisal of Lot Thirty-Four - comprising two golf balls, an LMS railway tumbler, an old meat mincer, two decanter stoppers, a soap dish and a moulded relief of a cottage entitled 'At the End of Life's Lane' - at an antiques auction which sets events in motion. The sale of Lot Thirty-Four at the handsome price of £400, together with further curious developments, leads Inspector Purbright to the heart of a chilling but decidedly genteel murder mystery...First published in 1980, Plaster Sinners is the eleventh novel in the Flaxborough series and displays Watson's characteristic dry wit and striking observation.'Flaxborough is Colin Watson's quiet English town whose outward respectability masks a seething pottage of greed, crime and vice...Mr Watson wields a delightfully witty pen dripped in acid.' Daily Telegraph'Arguably the best, and certainly the most consistent of comic crime writers, delicately treading the line between wit and farce...Funny, stylish and good mysteries to boot.' TIME OUT'One of the best. As always with Watson, the writing is sharp and stylish and wickedly funny!' Literary Review
The Publishers Weekly
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Publishers Weekly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with American literature categories.
St James Guide To Crime Mystery Writers
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Author : Jay P. Pederson
language : en
Publisher: Saint James Press
Release Date : 1996
St James Guide To Crime Mystery Writers written by Jay P. Pederson and has been published by Saint James Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides information on the most influential English-language writers of the crime and mystery genre. Each entry includes author biographies; complete bibliographies; lists of critical studies; locations of manuscripts; the writer's own comments on his or her work, when available; and an essay written by an expert of the genre.
Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers
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Author : Lesley Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
Release Date : 1991
Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers written by Lesley Henderson and has been published by Chicago : St. James Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
**** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Hopjoy Was Here
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Author : Colin Watson
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Hopjoy Was Here written by Colin Watson and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Fiction categories.
Within the quiet respectable market town of Flaxborough lurks a dangerous criminal: someone who has no compunction in committing horrific crimes. A secret agent has been murdered in unsavoury circumstances connected to an acid bath and it is up to Inspector Purbright to investigate, but it does not take long for two more operatives to arrive in Flaxborough looking for the same answers. How can one of their colleagues have been murdered in such a bland, provincial town? As ever Purbright must use all his skills as an investigator to get to the truth. Described by the Literary Review as 'wickedly funny,' Hopjoy was Here, the third in the Flaxborough series, was first published in 1962. '[A] macabre and jolly English tale.' New Yorker 'Mr Watson has an unforgivably sharp eye for the ridiculous.' Anthony Boucher, New York Times Faber Finds will be reissuing all the Flaxborough novels in sequence.
Coffin Scarcely Used
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Author : Colin Watson
language : en
Publisher: Prelude Books
Release Date : 2018-02-22
Coffin Scarcely Used written by Colin Watson and has been published by Prelude Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with Fiction categories.
In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia. But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat's neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen. This time it looks like foul play, unless a surfeit of marshmallows had led the late and rather unlamented Mr Gwill to commit suicide by electrocution. ('Power without responsibility', murmurs Purbright.) How were the dead men connected, both to each other and to a small but select band of other town worthies? Purbright becomes intrigued by a stream of advertisements Gwill was putting in the Citizen, for some very oddly named antique items... Witty and a little wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay. What people are saying about the Flaxborough series: “Colin Watson wrote the best English detective stories ever. They work beautifully as whodunnits but it's really the world he creates and populates ... and the quality of the writing which makes these stories utterly superior.” “The Flaxborough Chronicles are satires on the underbelly of English provincial life, very well observed, very funny and witty, written with an apt turn of phrase ... A complete delight.” “If you have never read Colin Watson - start now. And savour the whole series.” “Light-hearted, well written, wickedly observed and very funny - the Flaxborough books are a joy. Highly recommended.” “How English can you get? Watson's wry humour, dotty characters, baddies who are never too bad, plots that make a sort of sense. Should I end up on a desert island Colin Watson's books are the ones I'd want with me.” “A classic of English fiction... Yes, it is a crime novel, but it is so much more. Wonderful use of language, wry yet sharp humour and a delight from beginning to end.” “Colin Watson writes in such an understated, humorous way that I follow Inspector Purbright's investigation with a smile on my face from start to finish.” “If you enjoy classic mysteries with no graphic violence and marvellously well drawn characters then give the Flaxborough series a try - you will not be disappointed.” Editorial reviews: “Watson has an unforgivably sharp eye for the ridiculous.” New York Times “Flaxborough is Colin Watson's quiet English town whose outward respectability masks a seething pottage of greed, crime and vice ... Mr Watson wields a delightfully witty pen dripped in acid.” Daily Telegraph “Arguably the best of comic crime writers, delicately treading the line between wit and farce ... Funny, stylish and good mysteries to boot.” Time Out “A great lark, full of preposterous situations and pokerfaced wit.” Cecil Day-Lewis “One of the best. As always with Watson, the writing is sharp and stylish and wickedly funny!” Literary Review "The rarest of comic crime writers, one with the gift of originality." Julian Symons “Flaxborough, that olde-worlde town with Dada trimmings.” Sunday Times
Whitaker S Cumulative Book List
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Whitaker S Cumulative Book List written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Great Britain categories.