Peckover and the Bog Man: An Inspector Peckover Mystery - Hardcover

Kenyon, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312135823 ISBN 13: 9780312135829

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Inspector Henry Peckover has cheerfully accompanied his wife Miriam to Inverballoch and the 170th Robbie Burns celebration in this wee corner of the Scottish Highlands. Little does he know what he's gotten himself into...
Sir Gilbert Potter, Britain's most eminent archaeologist, has invited Miriam Peckover to be guest chef, and Henry predicts a night of wine, women, and song. At first, all goes smoothly. Miriam's haggis is delicious, the Scotch flows freely, and Peckover even manages to understand some of Burns' poetry before going to bed a contented man. But his slumbers are rudely interrupted by the news that Sir Gilbert Potter has been murdered.
Granted Potter was a pompous bore, but who could have wanted him dead? Might the killing be connected with the dig Sir Gilbert was leading up at Dundrummy Castle?

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There's no shortage of cheap (but funny) laughs at the expense of bonnie Scotland in this mystery starring doggerel-happy Cockney copper Henry Peckover ("the Bard of the Yard") and his sartorial eyesore of a subordinate, Jason Twitty. The scene is the traditional Robert Burns supper in Inverballoch. The haggis is cooked to perfection (courtesy of Henry's wife, a professional chef) and the guest of honor, noted archeologist and pompous blowhard Sir Gilbert Potter, insults everybody at the table. When, later that night, Potter gets a short ceremonial dagger thrust through his offending voicebox, Peckover is soon busy detecting. The backdrop is suitably mysterious: Potter had been keen to fund a dig in the area, based on his ambitious assistant's conviction that the Romans once inhabited the selfsame spot, whose peat bogs are famous for keeping treasures and bodies hidden and remarkably well-preserved. It turns out that Potter isn't the first ambitious digger to cop it in this remote locale. Kenyon gives a handful of the locals virtually impenetrable dialects, and Twitty, the son of Jamaican immigrants, is a scene-stealing delight. Kenyon's latest offering blends the easy pleasures of a classic cozy with the earthy gallows humor of a modern cop tale.
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Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312135823
• ISBN 13: 9780312135829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202