Who is killing the crime writers of London? Find out in this โconsistently entertainingย .ย .ย . crime debut from sci-fi veteran Brownโ (Kirkus Reviews).
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London, 1955. When crime writer Donald Langhamโs literary agent asks for his help in sorting out โa delicate matter,โ little does Langham realize what heโs getting himself into. For a nasty case of blackmail leads inexorably to murder as Londonโs literary establishment is rocked by a series of increasingly bizarre deaths. With three members of the London Crime Writersโ Association coming to sudden and violent ends, what at first appeared to be a series of suicides looks suspiciously like murderโand there seems to be something horribly familiar about the various methods of dispatch.
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With the help of his literary agentโs assistant, the delectable Maria Duprรฉ, Langham finds himself drawing on the skills of his fictional detective hero as he hunts a ruthless and fiendishly clever killerโa killer with old scores to settle.
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โ[A] well-paced first mystery.ย .ย .ย . Readers will hope a sequel is in the works.โ โPublishers Weekly