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1979, Eyre Methuen, hbk Sorry, out of stock, but click image to access prebuilt search for this title on Amazon Alternative online retailers to try: Click here for our prebuilt search for any edition of this title on Alibris Click here for our prebuilt search for any edition of this title on Ebay |
Storyline: When Police Constable Basil Cowdrey is nearly flattened by a Rolls-Royce Motor Car in Flaxborough market, the unwary might be forgiven for suspecting no more than a case of careless driving. But the car is the first indication of the presence in Flaxborough of fearless crusading journalist Clive Grail of the Sunday Herald bent on uncovering scandal in that town's quiet and overtly respectable back streets. Published intimations of revelations to come cause the mayor of Flaxborough, Alderman Charles Hockley, to issue a challenge of a blood-curdling and (as Inspector Purbright patiently explains), illegal nature. But the war of threats between journalist and outraged civic dignitary is not the worst of it and soon Purbright finds himself striving to solve (and to explain to his Chief Constable) a much graver and more sinister crime. Those who play with blue films and blackmail often find themselves involved in more than they bargained for. This is certainly one of the lessons of this story. Like its predecessors, (several of which have been adapted for BBC television such as Murder Most English, Blue Murder is described as being at times chillingly ghoulish, always adroitly witty. |
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1981, Methuen, hbk Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Click here for our prebuilt search for any edition of this title on Alibris Click here for our prebuilt search for any edition of this title on Ebay |
Storyline: The question taxing Detective Inspector Purbright's brain was whether anything untoward had been going on in the tiny village of Mumblesby. Certainly the circumstances surrounding the death of 'Rich Dick' Loughbury, the solicitor, seemed generally beyond suspicion. And although his widow (if that was what she was) left a certain amount to be desired socially in local eyes, and his house was stuffed to the brim full of antiquities acquired without bills of sale from neighbouring Mumblesbury residents, there was nothing Purbright could actually put his finger on. That was, until the day of the funeral... Characters:
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