{"product_id":"2026200014164-secondhand-whatevers-been-going-on-at-mumblesby","title":"'Whatever's Been Going On At Mumblesby?'","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First UK ed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Long tear at back of jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nPart 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161009594587,"sku":"2026200014164-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4669ecbc-77ce-401a-9c32-471fc9962c66.png?v=1787188918","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014164-secondhand-whatevers-been-going-on-at-mumblesby","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}