A Criminal Comedy - Hardcover

Symons, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067080827X ISBN 13: 9780670808274

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1986

Synopsis

Friends of Derek and Sandy Crowley receive word that Derek is having an affair with Gerda Porson, the wife of his older and duller partner at PC Travel, an affair that leads to murder

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Two Englishmen have met suspicious ends in Veniceone by gunshot, the other by drowning. That much is certain but nothing else is. Murder? Suicide? Accident? Another mystery is the anonymous notes sent to residents of a quiet English village, spreading the scandalous though false word of an affair between Derek Crowley and Gerda Porson. She is the wife of Crowley's business partner, the unspeakable Charles Porson, a tireless macho who adores handguns and the spanking-and-bondage ritual meted out by his bored, disgusted wife, who is in love only with his money. Was the drug-laced Bloody Mary intended for Porson? How to explain Derek's wife's penchant for masculine clothing? Who loaded the supposedly blank pistol in an amateur theatrical production? Long afterward, Jason Durling's brilliant deductive sleuthing will resolve the murders left unsolved by trhe Italian police and ignored by Scotland Yard; but he will come to great grief in his turn. Again Symons meets his own high standards: this tale is quickwitted, civilized, highly intelligent, sharply observed, complicated without being cluttered, and always in the firm control of a dextrous and accomplished storyteller. U.K. rights: William Heinemann; translation rights: Curtis Brown. January
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 067080827X
• ISBN 13: 9780670808274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220