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Fiction, Crime & mystery
A short story collection by the award-winning master of crime fiction
This collection of 18 short stories presents a diverse range of characters and scenarios, from guilt-ridden fraudsters to love-sick murderers. Murderers, thieves and conmen display much ingenuity, though frequently not enough to avoid the nemesis of justice.
Praise for Crime Of Miss Oyster Brown
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A reliable, original writer. - BIRMINGHAM POST
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A highly recommended collection of minature mystery gems by this top crime writer, featuring a superb selection of characters, from guilt-ridden fraudsters to love-sick murderers. - BOLTON EVENING NEWS
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Peter Lovesey shows a Heath Robinson inventiveness- always worth a look, whimsically full of twists and turns... In the title story a pillar of the Church's re-use of an unfranked stamp and her purchase of some compost accelerator is the catalyst for a more serious crime; 'The Model Con - sees a poseuse tricked into covering up for a kleptomaniac slimmter; 'Curl Up and Dye'
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is a nice barbershop monologue with Sweeny Todd overtones. - OXFORD TIMES
Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey is the only living author in Britain to have received the two highest honours in crime writing - the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He started with the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London and later progressed to modern times with the award-winning Peter Diamond books set in Bath, his home for almost twenty years.
Now living in Shrewsbury with his wife Jax, whom he met at Reading University, he continues to reach and entertain new readers across the world.
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