Anarchy and Old Dogs (Signed First Edition)

Colin Cotterill

ISBN 10: 156947463X / ISBN 13: 9781569474631

Published by Soho Crime, New York, 2007

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Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To - / Colin Cotterill." Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 169267

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anarchy and Old Dogs (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Soho Crime, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156947463X
• ISBN 13: 9781569474631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Series Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime

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Synopsis

A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is duly delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos. At the age of seventy-four, Dr. Siri is too old to be in awe of the new communist bureaucrats for whom he now works. He identifies the corpse, helped by the letter in the man’s pocket. But first he must decipher it; it is written in code and invisible ink. The dentist’s widow explains that the enigmatic letters and numbers describe chess moves, but they are unlike any chess symbols Siri has previously encountered. With the help of his old friend, Civilai, now a senior member of the Laos politburo; Nurse Dtui (“Fatty”); Phosy, a police officer; and Aunt Bpoo, a transvestite fortune-teller, Dr. Siri solves the mystery of the note and foils a plot to overthrow the government of Laos.

About the Author

Colin Cotterill, author of seven books in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series, lives in Chumphon, Thailand, with his wife. His books have been Book Sense Picks, and he won the Dilys Award for Thirty-Three Teeth as well as a Crime Writers' Association Library Dagger.