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Synopsis
For lovely Julia Hartton, unhappily married to a brutally successful pet food executive, a dramatic death in the fairground seems to provide a deliciously easy means of escape. But for Detective Inspector Purbright, it is the harbinger of a bizarre and increasingly nasty case.
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About the Author
Colin Watson was born in 1920. He worked as a journalist but was most famous for his twelve 'Flaxborough' novels, set in a small fictional town in England. Four of the 'Flaxborough' novels were adapted for television by the BBC under the series title Murder Most English and Watson's Detective Inspector Purbright remains one of the most intellectual detectives in the crime genre. Colin Watson died in 1983.
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'Sharp and stylish and wickedly funny.' Literary Review, 'Flaxborough, that olde-worlde town with Dada trimmings.' Sunday Times
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- PublisherEyre Methuen
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 041334780X
- ISBN 13 9780413347800
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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One man's meat
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Eyre Methuen, 1977
ISBN 10: 041334780X
ISBN 13: 9780413347800
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