Simon Brett
Blotto, Twinks and the Intimate Revue
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A quick trip to the capital goes horribly wrong when Blotto and Twinks get accidentally involved in London's criminal underworld...It starts innocently enough at the intimate revue 'absolutely everyone is talking about', Light and Frothy, where its glamorous star, Frou-Frou Gavotte, has rather taken the fancy of Blotto's school friend Giles 'Whiffler' Tortington. But while Blotto and Whiffler wait for the star outside the theatre to take her to dinner, Whiffler is seized and manhandled into the back of a cab which then drives off into the night... leaving Blotto with the problem of how to rescue his kidnapped schoolmate.Naturally, he enlists…
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A quick trip to the capital goes horribly wrong when Blotto and Twinks get accidentally involved in London's criminal underworld...It starts innocently enough at the intimate revue 'absolutely everyone is talking about', Light and Frothy, where its glamorous star, Frou-Frou Gavotte, has rather taken the fancy of Blotto's school friend Giles 'Whiffler' Tortington. But while Blotto and Whiffler wait for the star outside the theatre to take her to dinner, Whiffler is seized and manhandled into the back of a cab which then drives off into the night... leaving Blotto with the problem of how to rescue his kidnapped schoolmate.Naturally, he enlists Twinks's help and the two of them encounter actors, singers, impresarios, revue writers, cockney showgirls and Scotland Yard's finest - and white slave traders, who succeed in abducting Twinks - leaving it up to Blotto and his trusty chauffeur, Corky Froggett, to rescue her before she's shipped off to foreign parts forever...Praise for Simon Brett'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James'Murder most enjoyable.' Colin Dexter'One of British crime's most assured craftsmen . . . Crime writing just like in the good old days, and perfect entertainment.' Guardian
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4721-2827-0
- EAN: 9781472128270
- Produktnummer: 29300025
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H12.6 cm x B19.8 cm x D1.4 cm 150 g
- Gewicht: 150
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
SIMON BRETT is the author of over ninety books, many of them crime novels. His humorous writing includes the internation bestsellers How To Be A Little Sod and Summersdale's very successful Baby Tips series. He was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a First Class Honours Degree in English. A former radio and television producer, he has to date written over ninety books. A great many are crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter and Fethering series. Simon was Chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1986 to 1987 and of the Society of Authors from 1995 to 1997. He is President of the Detection Club and was awarded the 2014 CWA Diamond Dagger. He lives near Arundel in West Sussex and is married with three grown-up children and six grandchildren.
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