"I am in great danger ... I know that murder is going to be the
reward for my uncomplaining loyalty." This letter containing
heartfelt and urgent pleas for help is received by three very
eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable
himself. So when one of the town's most tireless charity workers,
Mrs Henrietta Palgrove, is found the wrong way up in her garden
pond, a connection seems likely. Yet Detective Inspector Purbright
finds the case does not quite add up and it takes the acute wits of
his old friend, the ever-charming Miss Lucilla Teatime, as well as
the more unwitting help of Mortimer Hive, indifferent private
investigator and accomplished ladies' man, to tease out the real
murderer. Witty and a little wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a
mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud
wordplay. What people are saying about the Flaxborough series:
"Colin Watson wrote the best English detective stories ever. They
work beautifully as whodunnits but it's really the world he creates
and populates ... and the quality of the writing which makes these
stories utterly superior." "The Flaxborough Chronicles are satires
on the underbelly of English provincial life, very well observed,
very funny and witty, written with an apt turn of phrase ... A
complete delight." "If you have never read Colin Watson - start
now. And savour the whole series." "Light-hearted, well written,
wickedly observed and very funny - the Flaxborough books are a joy.
Highly recommended." "How English can you get? Watson's wry humour,
dotty characters, baddies who are never too bad, plots that make a
sort of sense. Should I end up on a desert island Colin Watson's
books are the ones I'd want with me." "A classic of English
fiction... Yes, it is a crime novel, but it is so much more.
Wonderful use of language, wry yet sharp humour and a delight from
beginning to end." "Colin Watson writes in such an understated,
humorous way that I follow Inspector Purbright's investigation with
a smile on my face from start to finish." "If you enjoy classic
mysteries with no graphic violence and marvellously well drawn
characters then give the Flaxborough series a try - you will not be
disappointed." Editorial reviews: "Watson has an unforgivably sharp
eye for the ridiculous." New York Times "Flaxborough is Colin
Watson's quiet English town whose outward respectability masks a
seething pottage of greed, crime and vice ... Mr Watson wields a
delightfully witty pen dripped in acid." Daily Telegraph "Arguably
the best of comic crime writers, delicately treading the line
between wit and farce ... Funny, stylish and good mysteries to
boot." Time Out "A great lark, full of preposterous situations and
pokerfaced wit." Cecil Day-Lewis "One of the best. As always with
Watson, the writing is sharp and stylish and wickedly funny!"
Literary Review "The rarest of comic crime writers, one with the
gift of originality." Julian Symons "Flaxborough, that olde-worlde
town with Dada trimmings." Sunday Times
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