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Blotto Twinks, Fiction, Crime & mystery
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- Paperback Jan 11, 2018 | 9781472118295 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Jan 11, 2018 | 9781472118295 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jan 9, 2018 | 9781405538985 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Dec 31, 1934 | 9781472118301 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Constable
- Paperback Jan 11, 2018 | 9781472118295 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jan 9, 2018 | 9781405538985 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Dec 31, 1934 | 9781472118301 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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The seventh hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo!
Another hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo!
The end of the cricket season spells gloom for Blotto, until he is invited to bat against the Hollywood cricket team out in sunny LA, where rain never stops play. And so begins the latest adventure for Blotto and his supremely gifted sister Twinks. Although their mother, the Dowager Duchess of Tawcester, keeps a strict rein on her two children, she knows America is full of wealthy young men, all of whom will fall in love with her daughter - and marriage to a Texan millionaire would solve the Tawcester financial problems once and for all.
So, accompanied by trusty chauffeur Corky Froggett, the intrepid siblings head out to California. On arrival in Hollywood they are invited to a glitzy party where they are introduced to a firmament of Hollywood stars, directors and gossip columnists, but the mood of the party suddenly curdles with the breaking news that beautiful starlet Mimsy La Pim - the (former) love of Blotto's life - has been kidnapped. And Blotto is determined to make it his personal mission to rescue her.
But in the world of old-fashioned cricket matches, gigantic Hollywood egos, film-making disasters and merciless crooks, it soon falls to Twinks to rescue her brother from the various messes he creates when attempting to rescue his damsel in distress. Will the siblings ever get back to Tawcester Towers - or will it be a case of death before wicket?
Praise for Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the Silver Screen
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A hilarious and old-fashioned whodunit romp in the mold of P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie, with just a tiny dollop of John Buchan thrown in for good measure. Highly entertaining and perfect reading for winter nights, Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess will keep you sweetly engrossed from start to finish - The New York Journal of Books
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Simon Brett has a deft hand with parody, playfulness and punch lines - Read Me Deadly
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Simon Brett is one of British crime's most assured craftsmen, with idiosyncratic characters proving winning creations... A feast of red herrings, broadly drawn characters, and gentle thrills and spills litter the witty plot. Crime writing just like in the good old days, and perfect entertainment - THE GUARDIAN on Simon Brett
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A very traditional English mystery, the characters are as entertaining, charismatic and all out fantastic as they were in the first. Mystery readers will want the adventures of Blotto and Twinks to continue for a very long time to come - Feathered Quill Book Reviews on Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess
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Murder most enjoyable... An author who never takes himself that seriously, and for whom any fictional murder can frequently form part of the entertainment industry
Simon Brett
SIMON BRETT is the author of over one hundred books, many of them crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter and Fethering series. Educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, Simon was chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1986 to 1987 and of the Society of Authors from 1995 to 1997. He was also President of the Detection Club and was awarded the 2014 CWA Diamond Dagger. In 2016 he was awarded an OBE for services to literature. He lives near Arundel in West Sussex and is married with three grown-up children and six grandchildren.
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