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AND THEN THERE WAS NO ONE
The Last of Evadne Mount
Fiction (Literary Fiction) 272 pages
Faber and Faber Ltd - December 25, 2009
The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on Slavorigin's head, almost none of the Festival's guests can be regarded as above suspicion. Except Evadne Mount, of course, the stubborn amateur sleuth and bestselling crime novelist from Gilbert Adair's "The Act of Roger Murgatroyd" and "A Mysterious Affair of Style". Neither of those two cases, however, prepared her for the jaw-dropping twists of this new investigation, which climaxes at Meiringen's principal tourist attraction, the Reichenbach Falls - the site of Holmes' fatal confrontation with his nemesis, Moriarty ...
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A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF STYLE
Part two of three
Fiction (Literary Fiction) 288 pages
Faber and Faber Ltd - November 1, 2007
It is London in 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As Evadne Mount, bestselling crime novelist, discovers, however, all six did have a motive for committing another, earlier, still unsolved murder yet, on that occasion, not one of them had the opportunity...
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The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment
Part one of three
Fiction (Literary Fiction) 304 pages
Faber and Faber Ltd - November 3, 2006
'A delightful entertainment' The Times
Biography
Cultural observer, journalist, broadcaster, critic, screenwriter and award-winning novelist, he has written regular columns for The Sunday Times, Esquire and Independent on Sunday.
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