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The charming first novel in a new comic crime series set in Brighton, from one of Britain´s most-loved writers, the incomparable Lynne Truss

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The charming first novel in a new comic crime series set in Brighton, from one of Britain´s most-loved writers, the incomparable Lynne Truss. After the notorious ´Middle Street Massacre´ of 1951, when the majority of Brighton´s criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine rather enjoys life as a policeman. No criminals, no crime, no stress. He just wishes Sergeant Brunswick would stop insisting that perhaps not every criminal was wiped out that fateful day. So it´s really rather annoying when an ambitious -not to mention irritating - new Constable shows up to work and starts investigating a series of burglaries. And it´s even more annoying when, after Constable Twitten is despatched to the theatre for the night, he sits next to a vicious theatre critic who is promptly shot dead part way through the opening night of a new play. It seems Brighton may be in need of a police force after all

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