Just Another Angel - Hardcover

Ripley, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750527595 ISBN 13: 9780750527590

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2008

Synopsis

In the exciting but sometimes dangerous London of the 1980s, Fitzroy Maclean Angel, jazz trumpet player and illegal taxi driver, meets a beautiful and enigmatic blonde - and that's just the start of his troubles. Hotly pursued by a jail-bird gangster and this thuggish henchman, a maverick cop bent on revenge, and a dogged Inland Revenue inspector, he finds his life becoming more complicated by the minute. And just how an emerald pendant, a women's peace camp and a wad of French francs fit into the picture, he can hardly imagine...

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About the Author

Mike Ripley is the author of 16 novels, including the Angel series which have twice won the Crime Writers' Last Laugh Award for comedy. He was the co-editor of the legendary Fresh Blood anthologies, a scriptwriter for BBC TVs Lovejoy and served as the Daily Telegraph's crime fiction critic for ten years. He currently writes a monthly crime column for the Birmingham Post.

From AudioFile

Considered the funniest crime novelist in Great Britain, Mike Ripley is the author of 10 novels featuring Fitzroy Maclean Angel. JUST ANOTHER ANGEL introduces the roguish hero, who is at times a jazz trumpeter, a hash dealer, a transporter of stolen goods, and, ironically, a tool for the cause of justice. Raymond Sawyer's wonderful voice is not well cast for the rapid-fire patter of Ripley's writing. While his character interpretation and smooth intonation are pleasing, his timing and tone are off-key for this rollicking adventure, and he also struggles against the pops and hisses of poor tape duplication. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750527595
• ISBN 13: 9780750527590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304