Herring in the Smoke
By (Author) L. C. Tyler
7
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
24th January 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Roger Norton Vane is dead. Twenty years ago he went for a walk in the Thai jungle with his partner and never returned. After years of wild speculation and fruitless searches, finally his death is to be made official and somebody will inherit his accumulated wealth.
Ethelred Tressider, crime writer and Vane's biographer, attends the memorial service, but little does he expect to find himself talking to Vane himself, apparently returned from the dead. Chaos ensues and while trying to complete the biography it becomes clear that many people wish the man calling himself Vane had stayed dead, and that his anecdotes had died with him...
`A joy to read' - The Times; 'Crime in the classic mould with a sharp comic edge' - Daily Mail
L. C. Tyler was born in Southend-on-Sea and educated at Oxford and City Universities. He has won awards for his writing, and regularly contributes to national newspapers including The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. He is the Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association and a CWA short story Dagger judge. L. C. Tyler lives in Islington.
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