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The Naked Nuns
By (Author) Colin Watson
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
15th October 2009
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
176
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 13mm
194g
'TWO NAKED NUNS AVAILABLE PHILADELPHIA' is the strangest cable ever to come to Flaxborough. Inspector Purbright, who has coped with a few odd things in his time, finds it opens a rich lode of skullduggery, deceit and sudden death. England, discreetly prosperous, respectable and brimming with provincial virtues. However, beneath the bland surface, strange passions seethe. The little foibles of its citizens afford more than ample scope to the wisdom and pertinacity of Inspector Purbright. Naked Nuns is the eighth novel in the Flaxborough series and displays Watson's characteristic dry wit and striking observation. olde-worlde town with Dada trimmings.' Sunday Times
Colin Watson was born in 1920. He worked as a journalist but was most famous for his twelve 'Flaxborough' novels, set in a small fictional town in England. Four of the 'Flaxborough' novels were adapted for television by the BBC under the series title Murder Most English and Watson's Detective Inspector Purbright remains one of the most intellectual detectives in the crime genre. Colin Watson died in 1983.