Monkey Puzzle - Hardcover

Gosling, Paula

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385199635 ISBN 13: 9780385199636

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985

Synopsis

Lieutenant Jack Stryker confronts a most frustrating case when Grantham University's most unpopular professor is murdered and more than one person will benefit from his bizarre death

About this title

About the Author:

Paula Gosling was born in Detroit and moved permanently to England in 1964. She worked as a copywriter and a freelance copy consultant before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and she has since garnered both the Silver and Gold Daggers. She is a past Chairman of the CWA.

Review:

Plotted with great guile, this is a scintillating entertainment * Sunday Times * Grips and amuses to the last sentence * The Times * A neat variation on old themes, nicely written and convincingly expounded * Financial Times * Paula Gosling is one of the best in the genre * Police * Done with immense dazzle * The Guardian * An interesting plot in an excellently portrayed setting * TLS *

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0385199635
• ISBN 13: 9780385199636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178