The Cobalt and Merriwether Blues - Softcover

Sherborne, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1546894950 ISBN 13: 9781546894957

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Blues singer Stetson Slim gunned down his manager, then threw himself under a car. So the story goes. But none of the witnesses want to talk about it. Are they hiding something? Might someone else’s finger have been on the trigger that fatal day? Forty-five years on, the editor of a blues magazine decides to reopen the case – only to find himself up against a wall of silence, attempts on his life and, worse, his serious lack of aptitude for detective work. Luckily for him, Slim’s touring band included the legendary Cobalt and Merriwether, perennially unsuccessful rock stars who can be relied upon to dish the dirt and act the hero. Except that in this case even their lips seem to have been sealed. The Cobalt and Merriwether Blues is a comic murder mystery which delivers more slapstick action than a silent movie, more laughs than a hyena on nitrous oxide, more outlandish characters than a cabinet meeting. Dig those lowdown blues!

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Sherborne was formerly Head of English and Humanities at Luton Sixth Form College. His previous novel Don’t Shoot Mr Daunt is currently available as an e-book. His biography HG Wells: Another Kind of Life was hailed as “a brilliant portrait” by the Sunday Telegraph and “authoritative” by the Times Literary Supplement. In addition to writing and broadcasting widely on the subject of HG Wells, he has written several study guides for students of English Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1546894950
• ISBN 13: 9781546894957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344