Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblesby

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In Flaxborough's posh neighbouring village, Mumblesbury, the local solicitor, Richard Daspard Loughbury, has suddenly died.

Natural causes it appears, butDI Purbrightand the ever-helpfulMiss Lucy Teatimeare taken aback by the quality of Loughbury's art collection- including a Paul Klee, a Corot, and even a fragment of the "True Cross".

All seem to have been acquired locally and the question of blackmail hangs in the air. Loughbury's decidedly un-posh widow, Zoe, is less than grief-stricken, as are a cast of colourful characters from randy farmers to gin-soaked county types. Then, the recent suicide of a local farmer's wife also begins to look questionable.

Witty and a little wicked, this final tale in Colin Watson's Flaxborough series offers a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

Author Bio

Colin Watson was born in 1920 in Croydon, England. At age 17 he was appointed cub reporter on the Boston Guardian, a local newspaper in a Lincolnshire market town. His years as a journalist there proved a formative experience, and he collected then much of the material that formed the basis for the Flaxborough novels. He won two CWA Silver Dagger awards, and the Flaxborough series was adapted for television by the BBC under the title Murder Most English. He died in 1983.