Rum Affair
By (Author) Dorothy Dunnett
Duckworth Books
Farrago
11th May 2023
11th May 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Comic (humorous) crime and mystery
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
FIC
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Tina Rossi, the world's leading coloratura soprano, has travelled to Edinburgh, ostensibly to sing in the Festival, in reality to meet her lover, top scientist Kenneth Holmes. But instead of finding Kenneth at their rendezvous, she discovers an unknown corpse.
Enter Johnson Johnson, a famous but enigmatic portrait painter whose yacht Dolly is about to sail in a race to the Hebrides where Holmes was conducting his top-secret research.
Soon Tina and Johnson are sailing the high seas to investigate Holmes' disappearance, but as Dolly nears Rum, the race has become one for life rather than prize money...
PRAISE FOR THE DOLLY MYSTERY SERIES
The Dolly novels aredelicious, funny, ingenious, glamorous, cleverListener
'Dunnett tempts her fans with buried clues and red herrings that keep them reading and rereading the booksNew York Times
'[Dunnetts] women are among her strongest characters'Guardian
Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001) is the celebrated author of the Dolly books (aka the Johnson Johnson series). She was a trustee of the National Library of Scotland, and a board member of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In 1992 she was awarded an OBE for her services to literature.