One of the century's great innovators in British crime fiction offers more humor with a twist of bitter lemon (Library Journal) in a tale in which Scotland Yard Detective Dover is a victim of kidnappers, who demand not only a stout ransom, but the release of two prisoners--a multiple bigamist and a nymphomaniacal shoplifter.
I just love Joyce Porter's mysteries with her overweight, incompetent detective, Chief Wilfred Dover of Scotland Yard. The Boston Globe reviewed this book as "The best fictional detective in a month of Sundays, and Joyce Porter, its creator, the best female mystery writer since Agatha Christie". I totally agree. This is a great series and laugh-out-loud funny.
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