'Whatever's Been Going On At Mumblesby?'
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Long tear at back of jacket
In the sleepy, eccentric English village of Mumblesby, something has gone terribly — and hilariously — wrong, and it falls to Colin Watson's trademark cast of bumbling locals and wry investigators to untangle the mess in 'Whatever's Been Going On At Mumblesby?'. A master of comic crime fiction, Watson sets his signature blend of sharp wit and genuine mystery against the backdrop of English provincial life, where scandal simmers beneath a veneer of respectability and no one is quite what they seem. Part of Watson's celebrated Flaxborough Chronicles series, this novel upholds the author's well-earned reputation for puncturing small-town pomposity with surgical precision and gentle satirical glee. Watson's prose is deceptively light, drawing the reader into a world where the mundane and the murderous collide with darkly comic results — a world that once entered, is almost impossible to leave.
Author: Colin Watson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Methuen
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Long tear at back of jacket
In the sleepy, eccentric English village of Mumblesby, something has gone terribly — and hilariously — wrong, and it falls to Colin Watson's trademark cast of bumbling locals and wry investigators to untangle the mess in 'Whatever's Been Going On At Mumblesby?'. A master of comic crime fiction, Watson sets his signature blend of sharp wit and genuine mystery against the backdrop of English provincial life, where scandal simmers beneath a veneer of respectability and no one is quite what they seem. Part of Watson's celebrated Flaxborough Chronicles series, this novel upholds the author's well-earned reputation for puncturing small-town pomposity with surgical precision and gentle satirical glee. Watson's prose is deceptively light, drawing the reader into a world where the mundane and the murderous collide with darkly comic results — a world that once entered, is almost impossible to leave.