Whatever can have happened to Lil? Flaxborough butcher Arthur Spain
is worried that his sister-in-law hasn't been in touch lately, so
he pays her a visit. But Lil's not at home, and by her porch door
are a dozen bottles of curdling milk... Alarmed, he calls in the
local police, D.I. Purbright and his ever-reliable Sergeant Sid
Love. It transpires Lilian Bannister is the second middle-aged
woman in the town to mysteriously vanish, and the link is traced to
a local lonely hearts agency called Handclasp House. So when a
vulnerable-seeming lady with the charming title of Lucy Teatime
signs up for a romantic rendezvous, the two detectives try extra
hard to look out for her. But Miss Teatime has a few surprises of
her own up her dainty sleeve! 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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