Caroline Minuscule - Hardcover

Taylor, Andrew

3.72

50 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0396081495 ISBN 13: 9780396081494

Publisher: Dodd, Mead, 1983

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A medieval script launches a modern treasure
hunt lightly dusted with black humor...
William Dougal is a postgraduate student of history with expensive tastes and low moral fibre. He is the sort who is as likely to commit murders as to solve them. Thus it is that when he stumbles on the garotted corpse of his detested tutor, he doesn't call the police. Instead, he slips away, intent on avoiding a row with his girlfriend. Naturally, his actions don't go undetected. Enter the suave James Hanbury with the reminder that the dead man was an authority on Caroline Minuscule, a Medieval script that may convey a very modern message. Douglas is pushed into--or rather drives his Morris Mini onto--a slippery slope which leads toward a cache of diamonds--and more murders....
"In William Dougal, Andrew Taylor has created one of the most attractive amateur detectives in fiction."--Harriet Waugh, The Spectator.
And so his 1982 debut, the first of eight Dougal capers, won the John Creasey (Best First Novel) Award from the Crime Writers Association and was shortlisted for the 1983 Edgar Allan Poe Award.

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About the Author:

Andrew Taylor has been a full-time writer since 1981 and reviews and writes about crime fiction, particularly in the Independent and the literary quarterly Books and Company. He has written over twenty books, mainly crime novels and thrillers and won the John Creasey Memorial Award from the Crime Writers' Association and an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America for Caroline Minuscule. Mr. Taylor has worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, teacher, librarian, labourer and freelance publisher's editor. He lives with his wife and plot consultant, and their children Sarah and William in the Forest of Dean on the borders of England and Wales. They have two cats named Max and Tom.

Review:

""Andrew Taylor... was given the thumbs up long ago for beautifully crafted, well written narratives combining subtlety, depth and that vital 'Oh, my God, what the hell is going to happen next?' factor, which is the driving force of the story-teller. He is also that rarity that can manage the semi-historical as well as the modern..."" Frances Fyfield, Daily Express

""Mr Taylor is a sophisticated writer...with a high degree of literary expertise."" New York Times Book Review

., .""ein Meister des Grauens...Taylor ist ein Vivisekteur der Seelen...Tobias Gohlis Die Zeit

""Taylor is an excellent writer."" Marcel Berlins, The Times (London)

""As Andrew Taylor triumphantly proves...there is still room for excellence."" Irish Times

""Taylor is a major thriller talent."" Time Out

""There's no doubting Mr Taylor's talent...exciting, readable and thoroughly amoral."" Daily Telegraph

""One of Britain's best writers of psychological suspense.""The Times

""Taylor is a highly entertaining, crisp and clean writer, particularly skilled in the art of the melodramatic plot twist."" Publishers' Weekly

""Like Hitchcock, Taylor pitches extreme and gothic events within a hair's breadth of normality."" Times Literary Supplement

., .""this author knows precisely how to wield suspense."" Independent on Sunday

""Taylor generates an electric atmosphere..."" Daily Mail

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