A Shot in the Dark (A Constable Twitten Mystery, 1) - Softcover

Truss, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1432862774 ISBN 13: 9781432862770

Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Large Print, 2019

Synopsis

A wryly entertaining new crime novel from Lynne Truss, New York Times bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A. S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter on his mind. Sitting in the Brighton Royal Theater with Constable Twitten, Crystal intends to tell the detective the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up case of 1945. And yet, just before Crystal names the criminal mastermind involved, he's shot dead in his seat.

With a new murder case on his hands and a lazy captain at the helm of the police department, the keen and clever Constable Twitten and his colleague Sargent Jim Brunswick set out to solve the decade-old mystery of the Aldersgate Stick-Up. As the partners venture deep into the criminal underworld that lies beneath Brighton's holiday-happy veneer, they begin to discover a criminal conspiracy that dates back decades. But will Brunswick and Twitten be able to foil the mastermind, or will Crystal's death become just another unsolved crime in this seemingly peaceful seaside city?

With her characteristic wit, New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss introduces readers to a cast of eccentric policeman and scheming criminals in a drolly delightful mystery you won't want to miss.

About this title

About the Author

Lynne Truss is a celebrated author, screenwriter, columnist, and broadcaster. Truss is the writer of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling book on punctuation Eats, Shoots and Leaves. She lives on the South Coast of England with two Norfolk Terriers.

Review

"Truss writes with the dry old-timey wit of a BBC radio play" - Entertainment Weekly

"Pitch-perfect send-up of 1950s Brighton with nods to Graham Greene . . . ingenious plot . . . Hilarious." - Sunday Times

"With plenty of brightly coloured bucket-and-spadery, including ghost trains and Punch and Judy and variety acts, this clever, tongue-in-cheek escapade is a perfect summer read." - Guardian

"The mystery takes an amusing turn once the clever young Constable Peregrine Twitten starts second-guessing his superiors. 'You are an impetuous, arrogant pipsqueak,' shouts the detective in charge, who tries to fire him before realizing he could use this pipsqueak's supersize brain to his own advantage. We should be hearing more from this clever young know-it-all." - Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Large Print
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1432862774
• ISBN 13: 9781432862770
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 428